Hello all, I am thinking of starting a low volume blog. I need some blog engine recommendations. I have seen various posts about .NET blogging engines not being good enough. Some people opted for WordPress after considering all options. Will that work on Winhost? I know it's PHP but does it support SQL Server? The only requirement I have for a blog is to have built-in themes/styles for fancy code syntax coloring as the blog is code/programming related. Any suggestions (with links) are welcome. Thanks!
According to their website: http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/, it only supports MySQL. Sorry, I don't have any other suggestions as I've never used any blog software.
Try bloggingengine.net. This is a .Net blogging application that should be compatible with our system. It can use either SQL 2008 as the backend or some XML file. I suggest you configure it to use SQL 2008. http://blogengine.codeplex.com/
Thanks both Nuclear and Ray. Ray: I have been playing with BlogEngine for a while and I've figured out most of what I need to know. I have one problem remaining. I created a subdomain blog.mydomain.com. It obviously points to the root. I have put BlogEngine to a blog subfolder and created application starting point. Now my blog is accessible as blog.mydomain.com/blog. I have then played with UrlRewrite and searched up and down for answers but could not make it work simply as blog.mydomain.com. BlogEngine keeps generating urls taking the form /blog/something.... I could not find a way to change BlogEngine's default root URL.
Try looking at this post from our forum. It has some good example on how to setup a URL rewrite rule. http://forum.Winhost.com/showthread.php?t=3548&highlight=URL
Thanks Ray. While waiting for answers I've found elsewhere that in terms of SEO it is best using a simple subfolder like /blog instead of opting for a subdomain. And it makes sense once you think about it... I am still pondering though...
