Installing IIS and Creating Hosts

1. Open your control panel.

2. Click on Programs.

3. Click on "turn windows features on or off".

4. Select "internet information services".

5. Click OK.

6. Wait for the feature to turn on.

7. Open the start menu and search "IIS". Open "Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager"

8. On the left menu click on "Sites" and then select Default Web Site. Click Start on the right menu to start the site.

9. Go to your browser and search localhost. If everything is configured properly you should see the screen to the left.

10. Go back to IIS and click on "Add Web Site..." on the left menu.
11. You should see the form as shown to the left. For site name you must choose a unique name for your site, for physical path you must choose a path where your site content will be located (typically "c:\inetpub\wwwroot" and then for Binding you must assign the site a unique address. For this example I used my IP address. Click OK.

12. Test your site configuration by going to your browser and searhing the unique address you assigned the site in step 11.








13. To configure anymore sites you can simply go to "Add Web Site..." again and fill in unique identifiers for the new site you are configuring (as shown in step 11) and then visit the unique address in your browser (as shown in step 12).