Title: Using Microsoft Installer
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Using Microsoft Installer

 *  [floydasc81](https://wordpress.org/support/users/floydasc81/)
 * (@floydasc81)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-microsoft-installer/)
 * I don’t want to over complicate my life by learning all the secrets of installing
   and configuring WordPress. I would like to use the Microsoft installer to add
   a blog to our website. I installed it on a test server and it did not seem to
   allow redirection to a subdirectory and localhost became the wordpress home. 
   It worked, i think, but if I install it on my existing web server will my real
   web pages fail or disappear? If there exist some simple step by step instructions,
   please direct me to them. Microsoft server 2003. IIS. Existing web.

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-microsoft-installer/#post-3751212)
 * WordPress will only work in a WordPress installation, so I’m not sure what you
   are trying to do. You CAN, however, put WordPress in a sub-directory of your 
   existing site:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory)
 *  Thread Starter [floydasc81](https://wordpress.org/support/users/floydasc81/)
 * (@floydasc81)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-microsoft-installer/#post-3751217)
 * I thought I could run a WordPress blog as well as a normal site. I.e. “click 
   here to see our blog”. We are not ready to be a WordPress only site. Should I
   set up a WordPress site separate from my real site? We host our own site, and
   I was ‘given’ the job of webmaster by attrition. Someone must be doing the same
   thing.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-microsoft-installer/#post-3751260)
 * Yes, you can use it in a sub-directory of your site – but you have to fully install
   WP in that directory and it will be separate from your site so far as maintaining
   WP and accessing the blog.
 * If you don’t want to deal with all the technical/backend stuff of WordPress, 
   you could set up a WordPress.COM blog – you can see the differences between .
   ORG and .COM here:
 * [http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/](http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/)
 * Then you would, yes, just include a link to that blog on your normal site. If
   you want more info on the WordPress.COM blogs, you can find that on their site
   or ask on their forums here:
 * [http://en.forums.wordpress.com/](http://en.forums.wordpress.com/)
 *  [2ninerniner2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2ninerniner2/)
 * (@2ninerniner2)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-microsoft-installer/#post-3751276)
 * Although I have not used this, have a look at:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_on_Microsoft_IIS](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_on_Microsoft_IIS)
 * And at Step 8, set the values to a sub directory and that it is not set as the
   Default web site.
 * I did a manual install of MySQL and PHP on a Win 2008 R2 Server that is running
   IIS 7.5. A bit more work, but it works just fine.
 * Cheers!
    Lyle

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