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As we were looking at blogging as a new Internet Marketing vehicle/medium for our clients to take advantage of, we followed the  rest of the SEO herd to WordPress. All of the SEO’s that are promoting blogging to their clients seem to prefer WordPress ( with what seems to be good reason, but that is a topic for another post ), and what’s more, pretty much every blog we looked at worth looking at had the tell-tale signs of a hosted WordPress application ( WordPress.org as opposed to the WordPress.com option ).

So, to make that long story short, we settled on WordPress as the blogging application we would recommend to our own clients.

However, WordPress is a PHP/MySQL application, and we know what that means . . . . it would be “happiest” in a “LAMP” ( Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP ) environment while we run Windows, IIS servers supporting MySQL & PHP . . . but even though WordPress is a pretty darned sophisticated application, we wanted to prove that we can run it just as well on a Windows servers.

And, of course, we hit some bumps.

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It’s not news at all that LAMP ( Linux, Apach, MySQL, PHP ) servers handle many things via mod_rewrite and .htaccess.

Frankly, we’ve been jealous of what can be done so simply on a LAMP server via a .htaccess file that is just NOT so simple at all to do on a Windows server via IIS.

However, we’re never daunted . . . there is always a way!

Querying this subject via search engines will likely leave on with the impression that it just can’t be done as easily on a Windows/ISS server as it can be done on a LAMP server . . . .  but the brilliant minds at HeliconTech.com have cracked the nut! And WMS is righgt behind them.

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