configuring IIS on winXP

[QUOTE=masCh]Hola!

I'm a newbie, and I have a big problem. I cant get IIS to work on my winXP. I have successfully got PWS to work on Win98SE and IIS on Win2k. But I have no idea why it doesnt work on WinXP.

I've been thru numerous tutorials but they arent in detail. I guess my problem might be due to the lack of knowledge on how to create and setup user accounts.

I have installed IIS on my desktop.

Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Internet Information Services and I see PGDERMS05 (this computer) on IIS 5.1 (local)

It has two child nodes,
1/ Web Sites
2/ default SMTP virtual server

Under Web Sites, there's a Default Web Site showing the contents of my default directory (currently c:\inetpub\wwwroot)

If I right click on the directory and hit properties, go to directory security and click Edit, I see
1/ Anonymous access ticked.
Username : PGDERMS05\IUSR_PGDERMS05
Password : (IIS controlled)
2/ Basic Authentication unticked
3/ Integrated Windows Authentication ticked.

I was told that's all I need to run asp files on my Internet Explorer. Wrong.

Whenever I type http://localhost it says:
No web site is configured at this address.

You must make sure there is a website page located in the (which is named by default 'default.htm') in the directory specified at the 'default folder' tab (in your case this is likely to be c:\inetpub\wwwroot). At first you can try it with a HTML file, like I also did and it worked after getting through quite a lot of trying. In this same tab form, there are a few other important options. Don't forget to chech them out!

About the security settings I don't know whether they are right or not.

I heard that I need to mess with user settings to allow anonymous access to my site. I have no idea where the user settings are located and what to do to enable this access. Is it directory access, file access or internet access I also have no clue as where to get this information.

If you are using Visual Studio (or Visual Basic (.net for example)) there is a some help in the search function. You should type in some words like IIS and ASP. It will explain more about how to 'connect' and configure to your computer as a local server to serve your asp pages. Are there any ASP pages in your default directory (which location is configured in IIS)?

I'm also a newbie to ASP but I'm going to dive into it the next couple of weeks, so maybe we can help each other out.

If you can show me a step by step, please do help me. I'm in dire need of help, I've searched almost everywhere, and whenever I see a question similar to mine, all the replies seem to be

"Have you checked if anonymous users have access to your site?"

This question-answer doesnt help me because I dont know how to check that, and even if I did, I dont know how to let these users access the site.

Thanks in advance.

I hope my advice will help you a little bit, in the worst case only if it is mental support. ;-)

Good luck.

Greetings,

ITM.

Split to a new topic from the end of the ancient thread this was added on to.

The error message indicates that port 80 is not getting to your IIS server. In the IIS mmc, the default website should not say (stopped). If you don't see "stopped", then IIS is running and will serve up pages if the requests get to IIS.

Try turning off any firewall software or script blocking software while you are testing.