What's IIS?
It's a web server. From Microsoft and included in the Pro version of Windows (at least from XP). It's used for hosting web services, like web pages/sites and other services. Before it was able to host classic ASP with VBScript on it. And when the dawn of the .Net era, .Net offers registration of the framework to this server. It has actually lots of benefits. You can easily port or create an application based on .Net and run on IIS.
You can easily get this application in your WinXP CD. I'm using WinXP Pro so you might refer to the documentation if you're using other windows operating system.
Open up Control Panel and go to Add/Remove Programs, click Add/Remove Windows Components. There should be a check box there that is unchecked when IIS is not installed. Please verify. Checked it and click next until it finishes installation.
Go to http://localhost/ to confirm if it's running.
.Net Framework
You've probably know how to install this one, but anyway here goes. You can download the framework from here. You must install this after you've installed the IIS. There's a portion of the installation that registers ASP.NET. If you've done this first, you might get annoying errors when trying to run ASPX pages from your IIS.
No comments:
Post a Comment