Install Windows IIS 6.0

1. Windows IIS

IIS (Internet Information Services) is a kind of Web service component, including Web server, FTP server, NNTP server and SMTP server, and it is respectively used for web browser, file transfer, news services and mail sending etc., which makes it very easy to publish information in the network (including the Internet and LAN).

The related IIS with Windows operating system

IIS: Windows

IIS 5.0: Windows 2000 and Windows XP

(IIS 5.0 installation package download link: http://www.dbmailserver.com/download/iisxpcn.zip)

IIS 6.0: Windows Server 2003 (IIS 6.0 installation package download link: http://www.dbmailserver.com/download/iis2003cn.zip)

IIS 7.0: Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7. For details, please refer to "Install IIS 7".

2. Install Windows IIS

We will take install IIS 6.0 in Windows 2003 environment as an example. Before installing IIS 6.0, you have to prepare the installation files of IIS 6.0. You can download the IIS 6.0 installation package from the Internet, and read from the Windows 2003 operating system CD-ROM as well.

The specific steps are as follows.

1) Prepare the installation files of IIS 6.0 (You can download "IIS 6.0" from the Internet).

2) Go to "Control Panel" and click the "Add or Remove Programs".

3) In the pop up "Add or Remove Programs" dialog box, click the "Add/Remove Windows Components" (Figure 1-1).

Figure 1-1

4) In the pop up "Windows Components Wizard" dialog box, select the "Application Server" check box, and then click the "Details..." button (Figure 1-2).

Figure 1-2

5) In the pop up "Application Server" dialog box, select the following check boxes in the red frames, and then double click the "Internet Information Services (IIS)" (Figure 1-3).

Figure 1-3

6) In the pop up "Internet Information Services (IIS)" dialog box, select the following check boxes in the red frames, and then double click "World Wide Web Service" (Figure 1-4). NOTE: Do not select the "SMTP Service" check box.

Figure 1-4

7) In the pop up "World Wide Web Service" dialog box, select "Active Server Pages" and "World Wide Web Service" check boxes, and then click the "OK" button (Figure 1-5).

Figure 1-5

8) Keep click the "OK" button till the "Widows Components Wizard" dialog box, and then click the "Next" button (Figure 1-6).

Figure 1-6

9) In the pop up "Files Needed" dialog box, click the "Browse..." button, select the file of installing IIS, and then click the "OK" button (Note that during the installation processes, it will repeatedly pop up the "Files Needed" dialog box, you only need to select the path to save the file) (Figure 1-7).

Figure 1-7

10) Click the "Finish" button to complete the installation of IIS6.0 (Figure 1-8).

Figure 1-8

11) After the installation is complete, click the "Start" button, select "Administrative Tools", and then click "Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager", you can open the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager. Note: Click the "Web Service Extensions", and on the right side of the form, allow the "Active Server Pages" services (Figure 1-9).

Figure 1-9

If you missed to select a component during the installation processes, you can install the component by following the above steps. During the processes of installing the component, please do not select the "SMTP Service" check box. If you installed the "SMTP Service" component, it will conflict with the port 25 of AAMail. Under this circumstance, in the "Internet Information Services (IIS)" dialog box, you can uncheck the "SMTP Service" check box, and keep click the "OK" button till the "Widows Components Wizard" dialog box, and then click the "Next" button. Finally, you can uninstall the "SMTP Service" component.

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