Microsoft Internet Information Server Q&A

  1. How to check availability IIS on a local machine?:

    Details

    Type any of three URLs in Internet Exporer:

    http://127.0.0.1
    http://<machinename>
    http://localhost


    If IIS was successfully installed and running it would open welcome page for IIS and IIS documentation. The method would work on Windows 2000/NT 4.0 and Windows 98/95.

  2. Where IIS is installed?:

    Details

    By default IIS is installed at:

    c:\winnt\system32\inetsrv

  3. How to call IIS help from IE?:

    Details

    http://localhost/iishelp

  4. How to run Internet Services Manager from Start/Run?:

    Details

    The file name for Internet Services Manager is iis.msc located at %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv. Type

    inetsrv/iis.msc

    to activate it (msc-extension is requered).

    When IIS installed under Windows2000, a path to Internet Services Manager would not be set by default in PATH environment variable. Therefore to launch IIS Manager by its name, add a PATH variable - %systemroot%\inetsrv - pointing to Internet Services Manager directory

    iis.msc

    (You can set a path in My Computer\Properties\Advanced\Environment Variables. Reboot to activate ).

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