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Installing WordPress on Windows Server 2012 R2 and MS SQL 2012 R2 Express

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Has anybody successfully installed WordPress on Windows Server 2012 and MS SQL 2012 R2 Express? I've tried using a collection of tutorials that I've gathered from forums and YouTube. I was able to set it up and ran the installation. WordPress installed the tables in MS SQL but that was pretty much it. I couldn't log into the admin console, it seemed like it only installed partially. I'm curious if anyone has done it successfully. If so, how were you able to do it. It seemed like there's a permission issue but I used an 'sa' account during the WordPress install configuration.

Thank you!

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petaganayr

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The easiest way to install WordPress on Windows Server 2012R2, I found out, is by using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (WPI) but it installs it over MySQL. The whole process is automated, I like it. I am just curious if anyone has installed it on Server 2012 R2 and SQL Express 2012 R2 successfully. A few post on the Internet claim that it can be done. It's been a headache so far.

Anyway, I'll keep this post open for a while in case someone has done this successfully. Thank you all!

petaganayr

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Thank you for the comments. I'm sorry that it took forever for me to do this.

Installing WordPress on Windows Server 2012 R2 and MS SQL 2012 R2 Express is very difficult to do, and I couldn't get it to work properly 100%. I'd like to share this information.