New to IIS and etc

Okay, here is the story. I wanted to learn PHP, so I purchased an online book. Well in the book it tells me to setup some sort of Web Service and make sure its working in order to view the documents I will be making.

So I installed IIS on WinXP Pro SP1. I searched the internet and found out how to install, now I'm stuck. It requests a login, I set up anonymous logging, but when i put in the login info it continues to display that message. So I tried putting no password, I still get the promp continuously. And when I cancel it gives me the 401.1 failed login screen.

Any help to completely disable login so it wont give me a prompt and just views it?

I suspect the permissions on the \php folder don't allow the web server user account in.

I don't have a php folder yet, i was reading the book and it said to setup apache or IIS before I attempt to do anything.

Forgive me for my ignorance, but I might not be understanding exactly what you are meaning but:
Here is what I did. Went to control panel and checked everything in IIS to be installed. Slapped together a index.htm file together in dreamweaver and put it in
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot.
Loaded up IIS, changed the IP address to what mine is.
I then edited the authentication methods to be anonymous access with the login name and no password. Only Integrated windows authentication is check under Authenticated access. When unchecked it gives no login but still says im not authorized to view this page.

Now when I type in http://localhost/ it says no website is configured at this address. And when I put in my IP address it comes up with the login screen and no matter what I put, it won't let me in. How do I set permissions to allow me in?

Okay, the FTP with IIS works, but it doesnt ask for login info... How do I create accounts with it?

So no one can help me at all???

First, read the IIS documentation which will answer all your questions. Or search this site or sites like www.iisfaq.com for more details.

IIS prompts for a user login if any element of the current page doesn't allow the current IIS user account to view. So if you're getting unwanted logins you have some permission setting wrong somewhere.