This article describes how to download, install and configure WordPress on Windows Server 2016. The instructions use Windows PowerShell wherever possible, and are suitable for servers with and without the Desktop Experience feature installed (Server Core). These instructions can even be used with Windows 10!
The instructions cover the installation of the following components:
- Internet Information Services (IIS)
- URL Rewrite 2.1
- File System Security PowerShell Module
- MySQL Server 5.7
- Visual C++ Redistributables
- PHP
- WinCache
- PHP Manager for IIS 1.4.0
- WordPress
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How to Install WordPress on Windows Server 2016
Thanks for posting this! I’ve not run the entire script yet, but have a question about what is best to do when an install file is no longer available (or has been moved to an “archive” folder). I think I recall that the original posting was about May 2017. Some of the versions listed in the script are not available, or not where they were originally. Thoughts?
Hi there!
I’ve updated the instructions and script to download the latest versions of MySQL (5.7.21) and PHP (7.1.15), plus address an issue with HTTPS downloading in PowerShell. Tested on fully patched versions of Windows Server 2016 (v1607 b14393) and Windows 10 (v1709 b16299) – all good. Also removed PHP 5.5 from the instructions, as this is well out of support now.
Hope this helps 🙂
Chris
I wasn’t fishing for this response, but THANKS!
Hello,
Thanks for posting this great tutorial. I’ve run into an issue midway through and can’t continue. Any suggestions?
PS C:\Users\webadmin\Downloads> Set-Content $MYSQL_INIT “ALTER USER ‘root’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘H*****’;”
PS C:\Users\webadmin\Downloads> Content $MYSQL_INIT “CREATE DATABASE wordpress;”
>> Add-Content $MYSQL_INIT “CREATE USER ‘wordpress’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘H******’;”
>> Add-Content $MYSQL_INIT “GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO ‘wordpress’@’localhost’;”
Get-Content : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument ‘CREATE DATABASE wordpress;’.
At line:1 char:1
+ Content $MYSQL_INIT “CREATE DATABASE wordpress;”
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-Content], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetContentCommand
Is there a script to start from scratch?
I had some issues and would like to reinstall ist, but how I do it?
I was having a problem with Windows recognizing the “Install-WindowsFeature” command. I finally saw where someone had said not to use PS x86 for running a different script, so I switched to PS ISE and most of the commands ran without a problem. Or at least what wasn’t being downloaded was not due to running the wrong instance of PowerShell.
The following is action #3 on Page2, but is missing from the PowerShell Script that has all the commands:
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
If you don’t include it, there are file downloads that will fail (and the cause might not be obvious). I actually found this command elsewhere, and added it, which made the file downloads work. I happened to start rehearsing the process and saw it was mentioned in 3. I then checked the entire script and I don’t think it is there. If so, I missed it.
The install went fine and I have a working WP site. But, I wanted a multisite site, so I went through that process, wanting sub sites that are subdirectories. The main site works fine, but the subsite does not show the site theme, nor can you get to the subsite’s Dashboard. I haven’t tracked down the answer yet, but I am thinking it may be something to do with the “rewrites”.
Great walkthrough. I have been installing an internal WordPress Intranet server/site and it took me a while to get wordpress and HTTPS working with a self-signed cert. I eventually found instructions regarding exporting the server CERT in Base 64 encoded X.509 format and then adding this certificate information to the end of the \wp-includes\certificates\ca-bundle.crt file. This along with downloading the latest bundle of root certs from https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html helped fix the problem.
I also found that I had to use the following command to configure IIS – “dism.exe /online /enable-feature /all /featurename:NetFX3 /Source:G:\sources\sxs
Install-WindowsFeature Web-Server,Web-Common-Http,Web-Static-Content,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Dir-Browsing,Web-Http-Errors,Web-App-Dev,Web-CGI,Web-Health,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Log-Libraries,Web-Request-Monitor,Web-Security,Web-Filtering,Web-Performance,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-Mgmt-Service,WAS,WAS-Process-Model,WAS-NET-Environment,WAS-Config-APIs,Net-Framework-Core -IncludeManagementTools”.
This required including the source option and pointing to the windows DVD/CD drive and also installing NETFX3 as this seemed to be missing from my 2016 server build.
I hope this might be of use to someone else as there aren’t many sites/articles concerning setting up worpress on IIS.