wordpress install Server 2008 IIS WAMP

*does* wordpress have to have its own port now that it lives inside the website root folder one level down?

I'm thinking now we have to get the references in the config file that point wordpress to port 81 to then use port 80?

or is wordpress linked to the apache port and since the apache port cannot use 80 that wordpress cannot use it either?

ok, I will shut up now.

--lots of deep thinking and fishing--

found this link:http:/ Opens a new window/www.iis.net/learn/extensions/url-rewrite-module/reverse-proxy-with-url-rewrite-v2-and-application-request-routing

Interesting, lengthy, and wondering. The walkthrough seems to start off promising to rewrite the urls (not simply using "localhost") and yet it gets to the end and does not show urls without using localhost. It also does not demo the use of different ports, although this...