Installing Internet Information Services (IIS7)

Before installing Internet Information Services(IIS) on windows, some prerequisites need to check. First you need to have a windows operating system such as windows vista, windows 7, windows xp pro, or you might have windows 2003 server. If you dont have anyone of those operating system, here some guides how to install windows 2003 server screenshots. Internet information services (IIS) which is your web server to store web pages. After completing install IIS, you can proceed to install MSSQL server and test to create a database name before install cms on your local server. You can install umbraco cms or install dotnetnuke cms which support these database and webserver such as Internet Information Services. A step-by-step guide to install and configure everything you need to run umbraco 3.0 on Windows Vista or install dotnetnuke. (including IIS7, SQL Server 2005 Express, SQL Server Management Studio Express, and umbraco 3.0). You can install ajax to create an interactive web application which is can used on the cms website.

How to install Internet Information Services (IIS)?

Install Microsoft’s web server, Internet Information Server 7 (IIS).

1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and click Programs.

Click Turn Windows features on or off in the Programs and Features section.

Click Continue if prompted for permission to continue.

Expand the Internet Information Services tree node. Accept the default values, but be sure to place a check mark next to IIS Management Console and ASP.NET, as shown below.

5. Click OK.
6. Click Next.
7. Click Finish.

Once IIS is installed on your machine you can view your home page in a web browser by typing http://localhost into the address bar of your web browser. Since you have not yet created a web site you should see the default IIS page.

You will configure IIS in a few moments, after installing a few other software packages.