Wordpress blog engine installation from Control Panel

[amythn04]

Has anyone had any problems with Wordpress blog engine installation while having a website with a SQL Server DB already up and running?

There is a warning in the control panel when using the installation button that the engine uses a MySQL db and if the tables are named the same as the ones that the engine might want to use they will be overwritten?

My current website uses a MS SQL Server DB, will I have any problems if there is a same table that the blog engine needs to create? Also, if I give the directory www.domain.com/blog, will it affect any files at the root (my main web files sit in the root directory)?

Any advice on Do's and Don't is much appreciated.

[bruce]

If you want to share a database between multiple applications, you will see this problem regardless if you are using MySQL or MSSQL.

Wordpress tables have fairly unique names. It shouldn't conflict unless you have 2 wordpress installation using the database.

[sstewart]

You might want to look at this thread

http://community.discountasp.net/showthread.php?t=13819