I’ve been trying to develop a company intranet for some time now, and generally it’s been quite a useful tool, but the same old problem with any website has reared its head, content (or lack thereof).
As a busy IT Department the effort involved in creating content for even a small company is often too much to cram in with the BAU day to day stuff, so the usual route is to make your site(s) interactive, we do, to a small extent have some CMS in use which makes regularly updated sections of our sites manageable by other departments but internally, till now we’ve not really had anything.
Rather than sit and spend hours hand crafting a full CMS system I looked at the blogging platforms, why not? They were exactly what I was looking for in the sort of activity that the system needed to provide.
I’d used WordPress before, and since it’s familiar to me figured I’d give it a try, but of course it needs to run in PHP, then I found this (http://www.iisadmin.co.uk/?p=6) To save the click, it’s a blog post about installing and configuring WordPress on a Windows server with IIS, ideal!
It is probably best to start here (http://www.iisadmin.co.uk/?p=5) first, as this post will walk you through the PHP/My Sql install/config required before you can install wordpress.
I did suffer from a problem in that the server I was using had a MySQL install on it, but that it wasn’t configured, I ran through the configuration, amended the PHP.ini file and all was well.
Big thanks to Paul for the blog and the guides.