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Installing Iis On Windows Xp Pro
If you are running Windows XP Professional
on your computer you can install Microsoft's web server, Internet
Information Server 5.1 (IIS) for free from the Windows XP Pro
installation CD and configure it to run on your system by following
the instructions below: -
1. Place the Windows XP Professional
CD-Rom into your CD-Rom Drive.
2. Open 'Add/Remove Windows Components'
found in 'Add/Remove Programs' in the 'Control Panel'.
3. Place a tick in the check box for
'Internet Information Services (IIS)' leaving all the default
installation settings intact.
4. Once IIS is installed on your machine
you can view your home page in a web browser by typing
'http://localhost' (you can substitute 'localhost' for the name
of your computer) into the address bar of your web browser. If you
have not placed your web site into the default directory you should
now be looking at the IIS documentation.
5. If you are not sure of the name of your
computer right-click on the 'My Computer' icon on your desktop,
select 'Properties' from the shortcut menu, and click on the
'Computer Name' tab.
6. Your default web directory to place
your web site in is 'C:Inetpubwwwroot', but if you don't want
to over write the IIS documentation found in this directory you can
set up your own virtual directory through the 'Internet
Information Services' console.
7. The 'Internet Information Services'
console can be found in the 'Administration Tools' in the
'Control Panel' under 'Performance and Maintenance', if you do
not have the control panel in Classic View.
8. Double-click on the 'Internet
Information Services' icon.
8. Once the 'Internet Information
Services' console is open you will see any IIS web services you
have running on your machine including the SMTP server and FTP
server, if you chose to install them with IIS.
9. To add a new virtual directory right
click on 'Default Web Site' and select 'New', followed by
'Virtual Directory', from the drop down list.
7. Next you will see the 'Virtual
Directory Creation Wizard' from the first screen click the
'next' button.
9. You will then be asked to type in an
'Alias' by which you will access the virtual directory from your
web browser (this is the name you will type into your web browser
after 'localhost' to view any web pages you place in the
directory).
10. Next you will see a 'Browse...'
button, click on this to select the directory your web site pages
are in on your computer, after which click on the 'next' button
to continue.
11. On the final part of the wizard you
will see a series of boxes, if you are not worried about security
then select them all, if you are and want to run ASP scripts then
check the first two, followed by the 'next' button.
12. Once the virtual directory is created
you can view the web pages in the folder by typing
'http://localhost/aliasName' (where 'aliasName' is, place the
alias you called the virtual directory) into the address bar of
your web browser (you can substitute 'localhost' for the name of
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