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IIS is acronym for Internet Information Server. IIS is a suite of tools and services for creating and managing, and deploying web server. The version with XP Pro is meant to be used for personal development, which is meant for file sharing, printers, etc. If you web developer then you need a web server for your development environment. You can always develop with a remotely hosted server, but it’s much faster, and safer to create applications and when it is in local code locally. Web-based scripting can be created in programming languages such as: ASP, .NET, PERL, PHP and JSP

As of April 2009 IIS has served 29.27% of all websites according to Net craft. The services provided currently include FTP, FTPS, SMTP, NNTP, and HTTP/HTTPS.

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Steps to install IIS on Windows XP Pro

If you are running Windows XP Professional on your computer you can install IIS 5.1 (IIS) for free from the Windows XP Pro installation CD and configure it to run on to your system by following the process as mentioned below

• After placing the Windows XP Professional CD drive into your CD-Rom Drive, you should open ‘Add/Remove Windows Components’ found in ‘Add/Remove Programs’ in the ‘Control Panel’.
• Check the ‘Internet Information Services (IIS)’ check box leaving all the default installation settings intact.
• After IIS / Internet Information Server has been installed on to your computer system, your home page in a web browser can be viewed by typing the following URL ‘http: //local host’.
• If you are not sure of the name of your computer then right-click on the ‘My Computer’ icon on your desktop, and then select ‘Properties’ from the shortcut menu, and click on the ‘Computer Name’ tab.
• The default web directory to place your web site in is ‘C:\Inetpub\wwwroot’.
• The ‘Internet Information Services’ console can be found in the ‘Administration Tools’ option in the ‘Control Panel’. Now, double-click on the ‘Internet Information Services’ icon.
• Once the ‘Internet Information Services’ console is open you can see IIS web services running on your machine including the SMTP server and FTP server, if you chose to install them with IIS.
• By right clicking on ‘Default Web Site’ you can add a new virtual directory, followed by ‘Virtual Directory’. Now you can see the ‘Virtual Directory Creation Wizard’ from the first screen click the ‘next’ button.
• You will then be asked to type in an ‘Alias’. With this you will access the virtual directory from your web browser
• You will now see a ‘Browse’ button/ icon. By clicking on this you can select the directory your web site pages are in on your computer, and then you need to click on the ‘next’ button to continue.
• Then you will see series of Check Boxes, if you are not worried about security then check all of them. If you worried about security and want to run ASP scripts then check the first two, followed by the ‘next’ button.
• Once the virtual directory is created you can view the web pages in the folder by typing the following URL ‘http: //localhost/aliasName’. Also you can substitute ‘localhost’ for the name of your computer if you wish).