When I worked on my friend’s desktop, I just wanted to create a virtual directory. So I went to “Run” and typed “inetmgr”, then enter. Even though he had installed VS2010, but he did not installed/enabled IIS in local machine.
I guess, IIS is disabled by default when you install Windows. So here I’m going to explain the steps how to install/enable IIS in Windows 7 system.
Step 1: Go to "Control panel" and select "Programs and Features" or simply type “appwiz.cpl” in run.
Step 2: In the left hand side, click on the link “Turn Windows features on or off”.
Step 3: As a result you got “
Windows Features” popup in that check the check boxes as shown below.
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Step 4: That’s it! Windows will automatically install it! Now you can access the IIS by typing the command “
inetmgr” in Run.
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Hope this was helpful for beginners!
Happy coding!