Title: WordPress on SQLServer and II6
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress on SQLServer and II6

 *  [Farrell Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/farrell-jones/)
 * (@farrell-jones)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-on-sqlserver-and-ii6/)
 * I am running IIS6 on Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005. I have PHP 5.2.6
   running with the SQLSRV 1.0 driver for PHP. My SQLServer database is on another
   machine than my web site. I continue to get the error message of “Error establishing
   a database connection”. The database is running, and the password is correct.
   I have successfully connected to the database using ODBC connections.
 * What else do I need to check/do?
    -Farrell

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-on-sqlserver-and-ii6/#post-1885584)
 * you need a MySQL database
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Hosting_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Hosting_WordPress)
 *  Thread Starter [Farrell Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/farrell-jones/)
 * (@farrell-jones)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-on-sqlserver-and-ii6/#post-1885586)
 * Not according to
    [http://wordpress.visitmix.com/development/installing-wordpress-on-sql-server](http://wordpress.visitmix.com/development/installing-wordpress-on-sql-server)
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-on-sqlserver-and-ii6/#post-1885592)
 * That would be an unsupported install BUT I noticed those directions say you need
   IIS7 and you’ve tagged this post as IIS6.
 *  Thread Starter [Farrell Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/farrell-jones/)
 * (@farrell-jones)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-on-sqlserver-and-ii6/#post-1885619)
 * I have seen other links mentioning IIS6
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-on-sqlserver-and-ii6/#post-1885620)
 * [wordpress “sql server” iis6](http://www.google.com/#hl=en&&sa=X&ei=TSlCTdOkG4TAgQeLz620AQ&sqi=2&ved=0CBYQvwUoAQ&q=wordpress+%22sql+server%22+iis6&spell=1&fp=c2946aa513ef4809)
 *  Thread Starter [Farrell Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/farrell-jones/)
 * (@farrell-jones)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-on-sqlserver-and-ii6/#post-1885627)
 * I have been looking through those links but had not found anything that would
   solve my problem. I was hoping someone on this blog maybe had some experience
   with IIS6 and SQLServer 2005.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-on-sqlserver-and-ii6/#post-1885630)
 * Alas, we’re mostly *nix/Apache and MySQL. I tagged this generic IIS and hopefully
   someone who’s clever that way will see this 🙁

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 * [iis6](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/iis6/)
 * [sqlserver](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sqlserver/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
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 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-on-sqlserver-and-ii6/#post-1885630)
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