How To Install IIS7 In Windows 7 ?

Step by step installation guide for Internet information service (IIS7) on windows 7. If you are a developer using ASP.NET then you have to install one IIS7 feature on Windows 7.

Step-1. Go to Start à Control Panel à and then click on Programs. You’ll see a link for “Turn Windows features on or off” as shown below.

Step-2. If you will expand the Internet Information Services tree node then you can see that there are a lot of options under it. You will probably want to explore these options, because even if you click on IIS, some of the necessary options for doing development aren’t checked. Go to Internet Information Services à Application Development Features à Select the checkbox of ASP.NET. When you will click on ASP.NET then following features will be automatically selected .NET Extensibility, ISAPI Extensions and ISAPI Filters. As shown below.

Step-3. Go to the Security à Checked Requesting Filteringà Checked Windows Authenticationàas given below. You can choose any other options too. It depends upon your requirement.

Step-4. Common HTTP Features à choose Static Content in order to serve static web pages in .htm and .html file extensions. As given below. à Default Document.

Step-5. Health and Diagnostics àfrom the Health and Diagnostics tools you will find new logging, monitoring and tracing tools helpful for keeping your web server secure. The Request Monitor and Tracing features will also help you to debug your applications by tracing the web request easily. It is shown as below.

Step-6. Go to Performance Features àChose Static Content Compression in the IIS 7 Performance Features section. It is exists compression functions for static content and dynamic content. You can choose any compression feature. We have selected static as given below.

Step-7. Internet Information Services à IIS 7 Web Management Tools à Select IIS Management Console àThe IIS Management Console is a must if you are working with Internet Information Services. It is a handy web management platform which contains tools and serves methods for you to publish, manage, trace and log your web sites and web applications. à Select the IIS Management Scripts and Tools as given below. IIS Management Services is used to perform management of Internet Information Services from remote computers. If you want to perform management of your web server from remote computers, you should mark this option. If your requirement is remote manager probably you will want to remote manage your IIS web server.

Step -8. You have selected all the necessary components, tools and features required for you. à Click on OK button to start installing IIS 7 on Windows 7. Your windows will be shown as given below. You will have wait for a few minutes while IIS 7 and changing IIS 7 features is installing.

Step -9. Open Internet Explorer and type à http://localhost. à Press Enter. If IIS7 (Internet Information Services) is up and running the following static web page will be displayed on your browser.

Step -10. Go to àControl Panel à System and Security à Administrative Tools à then click on Internet Information Services (IIS 7) Manager Icon to open the IIS 7 management console.