Web Application Development With ASP - Step 1 - Setting up your IIS Web Server

Installing IIS on Windows 2000 or XP
Internet Information Services (IIS) is a powerful Web server that provides a highly reliable, manageable, and scalable Web application infrastructure for all later versions of Windows operating systems. IIS helps organizations increase Web site and application availability while lowering system administration costs. IIS is Microsoft's entry to compete in the Internet server market that is also addressed by Apache, Sun Microsystems, O'Reilly, and others. With IIS, Microsoft includes a set of programs for building and administering Web sites, a search engine, and support for writing Web-based applications that access databases.

You can install IIS, add optional components, or remove optional components for IIS by using the Add/Remove Programs dialog box in Control Panel and selecting Add/Remove Windows Components. You will be guided during the installation and you may require to reboot the system after installation. After the installation.. you will need to test if it is working.. in my next posting I will teach you how to create virtual directory..

Note: You may need your Windows 2000 or Windows XP CD during the installation.

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