WordPress installation - wordpress

I currently have a website running on Windows Server 2008 with MS SQL Server 2008 Web Edition.
I want to host a blog, tightly coupled to the site, and after reading a good few articles, decided that I would like to install WP in a folder off the website root, accessible like this?
http://www.mysite.com/blog
I've just upgraded to Web Platform 4.6, and this has returned a few different options with regard to installation. Here's what I have:
Standard WordPress installation
Brandoo WordPress
WebMatrix3
WordPress itself is not familiar (apart from using it of course), and wondered if anyone could shed any light on these options.

Brandoo Wordpress uses MS SQL or Azure SQL by default. If You want to install WordPress winth thos DB's, use Brandoo WordPress.

Read here and here. Since this is essentially a fork of Wordpress, security updates and whatnot may be delayed. To use the official Wordpress code, you'll have to install MySQL.

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Different between WAMP and web hosting?

I have planned to learn WordPress. I just want to know what will be core difference between functionality and features if I install it on WAMP that is local host and a web server?
My preference was WAMP but I am not yet sure.
When doing web development on your local machine using a localhost, there are a few things you need to be aware of.
You need to ensure that it is same as the versions of the products on your actual web server or close to it (MySql, Apache, Php, etc.)
You need to be aware of the urls you use compared to the urls when deployed to the server (in Wordpress, you need to edit the main web urls in your mysql dump file before uploading to your webhosting)
WAMP actually is easy to configure, other alternative is XAMPP for local development
Wordpress updates a lot and usually so is there requirements, so in order for wordpress functions to work properly, your local server must be updated to their requirements or at least close to it

How to use wordpress with MSSQL Server?

My company has a portal based on C# ASP.NET. I have to develop wordpress websites whose data is required to be driven from portal database i-e; MSSQL Server. There is no direct and simple solution to connect wordpress website with MSSQL. There is a project called Project Nami which can help in this regard but is there any other way to achieve this objective? Is there any other CMS that can work like Wordpress and can run with MSSQL Server?
Thank you.
Long story short: You can't. Try SQL CMS instead.
Wordpress is tightly coupled to MySQL.
It can't be done and no amount of wishing otherwise by you, your business, or your management will change that.
You can deploy Wordpress as part of a website though with a separate MySQL somewhere but I would typically consider a separate URL (blog.mywebsite.com) and hosting it elsewhere. And uploading articles into this WP.
If MSSQL is 100% required for your articles, then you can't use WP. And I'd ask why, because clearly the presentation can be done elsewhere in this case and WP is not needed.
Both answers above are incorrect. Of course you can connect php app, which is what wordpress is, to a mssql database. Microsoft has long ago provided the drivers for it. Google it and you will find drivers for linux or debian OS's. It all depends on what you want to do. You will have to write your own code to pull the data you want from your mssql database and load it to wordpress to display it on the wp site. But saying php cannot connect to mssql is incorrect. Any php app can connect and grab data from MSsql database.

Integrate wordpress in sharepoint server

I want to build a website using SharePoint server 2013 as Software architecture , Can I integrate WordPress inside SharePoint server ?
If by integrate you mean run on the same (SharePoint) server, there are a few options. Sorry if this is obvious, but SharePoint runs on Windows Server/IIS, while WordPress traditionally runs on Apache. So, you might be able to use something like WAMP or install directly into IIS using Web PI, but it will likely get messy.
I would either use SharePoint's built-in blogging functionality, or host the WordPress site elsewhere and try to integrate posts using an approach like this.
You should be able to run WordPress on the same server as Share Point. Share Point is IIS, and WordPress runs quite well on that.
I develop in IIS, and live sites tend to be LAMP. This way I know the site is agnostic about the platform it's on. I've been doing this for years and have run into few issues. There's a few minor gotcha's but no real show stoppers.
For more on setting up WordPress in IIS, see: https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_on_Microsoft_IIS

Wordpress Site From Windows Server to Linux Server

I was recently hired as webmaster at this company. It is hosted on the windows asp.net framework and my boss wants to move it to a Linux server. I have read that it is a pain to transfer sites between .NET and Linux because of the different languages the two servers use, but the site in question is a wordpress.org site and so all the back end files are in PHP. Since it appears that none of the files use the .NET language, will it still be a problem to transfer the site to a linux server?
If you just want to transfer the wordpress site, no. Just get the mysql dump of the database and get the install directory for wordpress and copy it over.
You'll have to modify the config files a little bit depending on the destination server's mysql (connection info for example).
I just did this recently and wordpress is very simple for doing a site transfer.

Which CMS should be used to build web site using PostreSQL, can latest WordPress used

I’m looking for a way to build web site which uses PostreSQL to store web pages and allow users to modify them.
Admin user should able to create and changed pages using html editor from browser.
Site runs in Debian Squeeze x64 VPS using Apache. There are already Mono 2.8 and PostreSQL 9.1 applications running in this VPS.
There is no PHP installed but it can probably installed if software requires this.
Maintaining MySql in addition to PostreSQL in same server may be not reasonable so I'm looking for a way to use Postgres.
CMS should provide nice dark theme for web site so that web designer is not required for this.
WordPress PostreSQL plugin page http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postgresql-for-wordpress/
states this this plugin is not compatible with latest wordpress.
Also this plugin is not updated for a while.
Joomla! does not run in Postgres DBMS.
Drupal 7 seems to support it but comparing to WordPress Drupal usage is smaller.
There are mono ASP.NET applications running in this site so using some ASP.NET CMS seems best.
Latest Orchad does not run in Mono and PostgreSQL.
How to use latest WordPress with PostreSQL 9.1 ?
Which CMS software is best for PostreSQL?
Maintaining MySql in addition to PostgeSql in same server may be not reasonable
I'm not a professional sysadmin, but I'm not sure that's true. Here is a Server Fault question where it is claimed that operating both in parallel works fine: https://serverfault.com/questions/35934/installing-and-running-mysql-and-postgresql-8-4-side-by-side
mySQL is the quasi industry standard in the PHP world, so the biggest products all use it, and in the case of WP (and most others), it's the only database suppored. Adding Postgres support as a requirement seriously limits your options, so installing mySQL side-by-side with Postgres may be a good idea.
That said, Drupal is a perfectly fine, well-esteemed CMS framework and if its features and architecture work for your purposes, there is no reason not to choose it.

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