How-To install Microsoft IIS Server on Windows 7?

By Debjit on February 20th, 2009

windows 7 and IIS Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services, formerly called Internet Information Server) is a set of Internet-based services for servers created by Microsoft to be used with Microsoft Windows. It is the world's second most popular web server only after the Apache HTTP Server. The servers provide services for File Transfer Protocol, SMTP for e-mail and HTTP/HTTPS for web server.

In this article we will explain you how to install The Microsoft IIS Webserver on your computer. The IIS Server is NOT available for Microsoft Windows 7 Home edition as they say the Home edition was not meant for networking. So you must have the Proffessional edition or the Ultimate edition of Windows 7 installed on your computer for installing the IIS Webserver. You will also be needing the Windows 7 DVD during this install. Now, Follow the steps below:

1. Place the Windows 7 Ultimate or Windows 7 Proffessional DVD into your DVD-Rom Drive.

2. Goto Start > Control Panel > Programs

3. From the dialog box that opens, click on Turn Windows features on or off. You can check this detailed guide on how to add or remove Windows features in Windows 7.

4. This brings another dialog box that contains a list of many Windows related services

5. Check the box for 'Internet Information Services (IIS)' leaving all the default installation settings intact. If you would like to install additional services, then expand each option and select them.

6. Once IIS is installed on your machine you can view your home page in a web browser by typing 'http://localhost' (you can substitute 'localhost' for the name of your computer) into the address bar of your web browser. If you have not placed your web site into the default directory you should now be looking at the IIS documentation.

7. Service and Configuration management for your IIS web server: Read our article on how to manage settings for an IIS web server in Windows 7.

8. You might like to install IIS Tuner in order to configure your IIS server installation for optimum performance.

Watch this Screencast which explains all the steps shown above:

Watch it Directly on our tech-show portal.

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Peter John Hutchison

According to Microsoft Technet, you can install IIS on Windows 7 home editions:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731911.aspx
http://mattghum3.blogspot.com/2009/08/creating-your-own-web-server-part-1.html Matthew

Hi very useful article. I have included a link to your post in my blog dealing with the most common builds for web servers. I hope you don’t mind.

If you have a problem with this I will remove it straight away.
http://mattghum3.blogspot.com/2009/08/creating-your-own-web-server-part-1.html Matthew

Excellent article. I have linked to it on my blog about creating a web server.

If you have any problems with this I will remove it immediately.

I will definately keep an eye out for your posts in the future
luqman

I use the Windows 7 ultimate..
I cant install the iis using above method.. i’m stuck at the dialog box where i click on Turn Windows features on or off. The dialog box appear but theres no list of item at all.. Help me please..
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Thanks!! It’s very useful to me. I’ll bookmark it.
http://www.windows7next.com Rox

Useful article for windows 7 lovers. We can see more knowledge sharing articles on various blogs after official launch of windows 7 on 22nd October 2009.
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i cant see check boxs in this window ( Turn Windows features on or off )

i have only big free white page :S whats problem ?
Shiggity

Turn off your shitty popover ads, I can’t read the article because there’s no way to close them!
marcusdev

windows 7 home premium lists it as an installable feature, same as vista home premium did.
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TJ

Thanks…
Krishan

Thank you soooo much for the information……….. That helps a lot….
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Ashish

on windows 7 home basic licnesed version i am not getting asp.net and cgi or asp or isapi filter or extensions . i have only one option in (.net extensibilty) in my “turn windows feature on/off” ->internet information services-> world wide web services-> application developement features.
so i am unable to installed other features for iis
and there is no icon of internet inforamtion server (iis) in my contorl panel -> administrative tools.
can anyone help me in this
whats wrong with my system
i dot want to reinstalled windows 7 except that whatever is neccessory i try
- http://digitizor.com The Digitizor
  
  Hey Ashish, We will have a look and get back to you ASAP
  - Ashish
    
    hey i found that windows 7 home basic is only for some development countries like India etc and all features of iis and management tool is not available to windows 7 home basic
    thats why my iis is not shown in administrative tool and not all the features are available .. . .
    that’s bad .. . . .
    isn’t it ?
    thanks for your reply digitizor
- Abhijeet patil
  
  on windows 7 o.s.,I m unable to install IIS.
  - Garg Dpk
    
    Friends,
    iis is not supported on win7 home basic, use win7 professional or ultimate version for installing IIS
    
    Deepak Garg
Mobi

Thank you. It saved time. After IIS, I faced an other problem that ASP.NET is not enabled by default. So, had to go back to activate it. Thanks a lot.
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Glad you liked it!
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Ashish

please reply me on comment on date 2010-01-07 13:57:31
dip

After configuring iis in my windows 7 laptop, I can browse http://localhost/mysite.asp,(ie., the home page) but unbale to browse the links on the home page. Please suggest at the earliest.
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I cant get PHP to work on my computer. I want to develop my websites offline but I can’t seem to get PHP working ! why I installed php using IIS7 and still its not even reading my php includes!!
- Matt123716
  
  try downloading xampp and put your files in htdocs, and turn off your iis so because iis uses port 80 to test on.
- Anonymous
  
  Use C# with Visual Studio Express. PHP is a horrible scripting language.
Anonymous

I’m IT Student And It was Very Help For Me

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Thanks
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Wow, I had no idea you could do that on Windows 7! thanks for sharing
Anonymous

Hi, I have Home PREMIUM Edtion does thst count ??? Tell me if it does by emailing me at Housefiftythree@hotmail.co.uk

Thanks
ttoomm

You say IIS can only be installed on Ultimate and Professional. The following Microsoft Technical Library reference is titled “Installing IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 Home Premium, Home Basic, or Home Starter” indicates that is not in fact the case.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731911.aspx
I suppose their technical writers could have gotten overzealous but it seems odd that they would add an article specifically for “… Windows 7 Home Premium, Home Basic, or Home Starter” if it did not install
- Anonymous
  
  When the Win 7 RC was launched, we were unable to do so… so we wrote about it being available only in Win 7 Ultimate and Professional. If you look at earlier editions of Windows such as XP…. the home version did not have support for high end networking such as servers and other related things.
  
  Anyways, thanks for pointing us to that resources
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Nice article. But, i tried it with my licensed widows home basic,. I seemed to be installed, but didn’t work actually. Is there any common problems that may occur? From where can i get a working software for it(if my one is corrupted)?
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  If I remember correctly it is not available in home basic
Anonymous

The video certainly helps but it’s easier to follow the article without needing to pause every five seconds in order to make the same settings. Thanks for giving us so many materials to learn from.
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Lasanthag

Thanks! Save my day! Lasantha
- Anonymous
  
  Glad! We were of help
Bhuvanesh Senniappan

very nice guidance.. thanks a lot…
Surgaya Khundrakpam

there is no option for .asp inside “Application Development Features ” in iis.
Moreover IIS IS NOT listed inside SERVICES. I really need to activate .asp in iis. please help
NoOnehere45

Ok, IIS is installed and the firewall is blocking access. How do we change the firewall?
zahra

tanx alot
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  glad you liked it
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After I did this I couldn’t get to work on java script, did anyone experience this to their computer?
LG

Thanks, very useful!
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This information very useful to install iis server on my computer. Thanks
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You can take a look at the settings, there is an option for firewall