WordPress on Windows?

Jan 2016

We got an interesting call today from local charity Hives Save Lives, based near Verwood. The charity works with farmers in Uganda, bringing in equipment and training in honey production and helping to provide sustainable management and income generation. They told us their brand new, fully responsive WordPress site was all ready to go live.

The only problem with the site was … the project had dragged on and their original WordPress developer could no longer be located. We get more than a few calls like this. Now, it’s not a particularly difficult task to move a WordPress site from a development server to the live site, tweak the options to fix URLs and run a script to rename the paths of all the images. Job done, and in less than half an hour.

There was only one slightly tricky feature of the project. The old Hives Save Lives site was classic ASP and the hosting was Windows/IIS. Not everyone realises that WordPress will run quite happily on IIS. But we love Windows hosting as well as WordPress and we were quickly able to sort out a few redirects using ISAPI so visitors linking to the old ASP pages will get smoothly redirected to the new homepage.