Title: WordPress for windows
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress for windows

 *  [axelschultze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/axelschultze/)
 * (@axelschultze)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-for-windows/)
 * I just wonder if you are planning a wordpress version for windows? I know the
   current version kind of works on windows too but it’s just so painful to translate
   UNIX file system rights into Windows security privileges.
    The forums are full
   with “can’t access this, can’t access that, can’t get the privileges here or 
   there…” And at the end you need to ignore all rules of a secure system, just 
   to upload a file or image.
 * And no, I’m not willing to switch operating systems 😉
 * Thanks
    Axel

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-for-windows/#post-1323055)
 * I’d wager that any sort of OS-specific WP is unlikely.
 * I ran WordPress on a Windows server for a couple years a while back. The only
   issue I really ever had was with [Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Permalinks)(
   had to go “almost pretty”) but I’ve seen some hints that is solved with some 
   IIS7 tweaks.
 * Have you tried it? If you’re hip to Windows, IIS and the security model I think
   you can keep it secure.
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-for-windows/#post-1323057)
 * WordPress is just a web application that is intended to be run in a server environment.
   It doesn’t really care what OS it runs on, only that the applications needed 
   to run it meet the requirements. Everyone just likes that it “works better” on‘
   nix environments.
 * There is a version of WordPress [intended for deployment on IIS ](http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/)(
   windows web server) environments, if you use IIS instead of Apache, but I doubt
   that will ease any of the administrative issues associated with Windows file 
   and folder permissions.
 *  Thread Starter [axelschultze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/axelschultze/)
 * (@axelschultze)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-for-windows/#post-1323065)
 * Thanks Chris and Clayton.
    I got it almost all done. But now if I add an image
   to a post, WP ask me for a user name and password. But whatever I enter it just
   doesn’t work. The image is stored in the upload section but not displayed. Even
   an ordinary guest is asked for a username and password 🙁 Axel

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