Title: WordPress – WebMarix – Windows Server 2008 Setup
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress – WebMarix – Windows Server 2008 Setup

 *  [rcallero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcallero/)
 * (@rcallero)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-webmarix-windows-server-2008-setup/)
 * Greetings, I have been given a request to setup multiple WordPress sites, hosted
   internally on our servers. I would have a single domain (blogs.company.com) with
   the various wordpress sites located within subfolders (blogs.company.com/blog1,
   blogs.company.com/blog2, etc). I have installed WebMatrix2 / Web Platform Installer
   for ease of creating the WordPress sites. I am looking for some instructions 
   on the best way to setup my environment. I am able to create the sites with WebMatrix,
   but each url is [http://localhost:portnumber](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-webmarix-windows-server-2008-setup/?output_format=md)
   and the files are stored in “myWebs”. Does anyone have a whitepaper or instructions
   on the proper way to accomplish this request. I am running this on a Windows 
   Server 2008 r2 with IIS7. Thanks!!!

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 *  [Max](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clementsm/)
 * (@clementsm)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-webmarix-windows-server-2008-setup/#post-2958787)
 * Checkout Microsoft’s site – they have plenty of information on using WebMatrix
   with WordPress.
 * [Build a Web Site in Twenty Minutes using WordPress and Webmatrix](http://www.microsoft.com/web/post/build-a-web-site-in-twenty-minutes-using-wordpress-and-webmatrix)
   for example.
 *  Thread Starter [rcallero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcallero/)
 * (@rcallero)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-webmarix-windows-server-2008-setup/#post-2958789)
 * Thanks! I’ll give it a look. I posted here because I had seen references to Network
   Settings for multiple sites. Also if there was a better way to accomplish the
   goal, without WebMatrix, I would be open to hearing how.
 *  [Max](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clementsm/)
 * (@clementsm)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-webmarix-windows-server-2008-setup/#post-2958796)
 * That’s a bit of a difficult question to answer as I don’t know the limits of 
   your environment. Obviously, my personal choice would be to run WordPress on 
   a Linux or FreeBSD server, rather than a Windows Box, and if I have to run it
   on a Windows Box to rather run Apache than IIS7.
 * I have a few reasons for this:
 * a) Subjectively, I am much more comfortable with WordPress on a Un*x environment,
   and the tools available on the operating system are more useful to me that Microsoft’s
   Powershell (but probably because I am not that fluent in Powershell).
    b) I have
   found that you run into issues with plugins when running PHP as an ISAPI extention
   in IIS.
 * It is really based on your preferences and your environmental constraints.

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 * Last reply from: [Max](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clementsm/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-webmarix-windows-server-2008-setup/#post-2958796)
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