How to install wordpress on MS SQL [closed]

Answer 1

There is no feasible way to do this. MS SQL support is an open request in WordPress's bug tracking system.

Here is a blog entry from a guy who tried it. It didn't end well.

For completeness's sake, there seems to be an approach that is in alpha Stadium (Not suitable for everyday use!) that may one day become a workable workaround. wordpress-mssql

Answer 2

You can't. Even when migrating the data over Wordpress would still use MySQL specific API calls and MySQL specific SQL statements, you'd first have to refactor the whole codebase in order to make it compatible.

Answer 3

WordPress won't natively run MSSQL. However, an up-to-date fork that supports MSSQL does exist.

Answer 4

So we are running Wordpress 3 with MS SQL 2008 under IIS 7 and the Wincache plugin and it's great. The trick is as another poster suggested is the MySQL that exists in many plugins. The project is here http://sourceforge.net/projects/wp-sqlsrv/

Answer 5

It is definitely possible to run WordPress connecting to MS SQL Server. We are running such an instance in production at my company. Here are two posts that describe the process of using WordPress with MS SQL Server and IIS. I am using such a configuration right now on my local box.

http://techsugar.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/how-to-install-wordpress-on-iis-7-5-using-sql-server-2008/

http://wordpress.visitmix.com/development/installing-wordpress-on-sql-server