ThomasTe

Hi,

I have a website, hosted on my own MS server. If I would like to add a blog at www.mysite.com/blog, what would be the easiest way?
I don’t have any experience with setting up blogs, and it should be incorporated with our current website layout.

Thanks.

Regards,
Thomas

Ken Durham

wipe it all clean and install a lamp system

Not sure if this helps or not
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ThomasTe

Thanks, that might be an idea.

All other inputs are welcome.

Thanks.

Regards,
Thomas

ThomasTe

Is it possible to use blogger.com, wordpress or the like pointing them to domain.com/blog?

By the way, do you have a simple guide on how to get started with blogs (not about choosing a niche, but tracking followers, pinging, etc.)?

Thanks.

Regards,
Thomas

CarloD.

By any chance is it running IIS? I had some hard times trying to get it to work, also you would need to install ISAPI rewrite mod.... I believe i had troubles with WP might have been WPMU though.

eddiejames

.NET and the Windows Hosting environment is quite a technical/specialized area in one sense, there isn't the amount of resources or free tools that you'll get with LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql and PHP) as it is really aimed at people developing solutions on Visual Studio. I have experience with both environments and I would strongly recommend going with PHP/MySQL

For the sake of a few dollars, you might aswell go and get yourself a cPanel hosting account - get on with Fantastico Autoinstaller and then you can install wordpress with a few clicks.

There are tonnes of tutorials round the internet which will take you through the steps to do this, and the benefits you'll get will be that the actual hosting environment will already be setup for you if you buy cPanel hosting.

If you don't want to spend money - I would just say, is the amount of time and energy you'll spend setting it up on Windows worth the $40 you can pay to get a decent hosting account for a year?

Regards,

James (or Eddie)

ThomasTe

Thanks James/Eddie, I'll look into it.

Perhaps a SharePoint website could be a solution?

Regards,
Thomas

shaddai

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