Bill Staples has pointed out a tutorial from Dennis Chung about setting up Wordpress on an IIS7 server with MySQL on the Windows Server 2008 Server Core.

Wow. Take Windows Server 2008 Server Core + PHP + IIS7 + MySQL + WordPress, mix them together, will they blend well and work out as a nice concoction? Matty challenged me to this blend, and guess what, we have a powerful cocktail to offer after all!

He breaks the tutorial up into serveral topics like:

• the hardware used
• the use of virtualization in the setup
• setting up Windows Server Core on the network
• setting up FastCGI and PHP on the IIS server
• loading MySQL onto the server
• installing and configuring Wordpress