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How to add a blog to my website on a Microsoft Server?

by ThomasTe
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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
#add #blog #microsoft #server #website
  • Profile picture of the author HomeComputerGames
    wipe it all clean and install a lamp system

    Not sure if this helps or not
    BlogEngine.NET | An open source ASP.NET 2.0 powered blogging engine
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  • Profile picture of the author ThomasTe
    Thanks, that might be an idea.

    All other inputs are welcome.

    Thanks.

    Regards,
    Thomas
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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?
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  • Profile picture of the author ThomasTe
    Thanks James/Eddie, I'll look into it.

    Perhaps a SharePoint website could be a solution?

    Regards,
    Thomas
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  • Profile picture of the author shaddai
    wipe it all clean and install a lamp system
    The best advice that could ever be given concerning a microsoft product.
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