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How to manage settings for an IIS web server and FTP server in Windows 7?

By Debjit on June 20th, 2009

iislogo Windows 7 comes with an inbuilt IIS web server and a FTP server. We have already shown you how to install an IIS web server or an FTP server on your Windows 7 system. In this article, we will tell you how to manage the settings for either of IIS web and the FTP servers in Windows 7.

1. Open the Control Panel on your system. And click on Administrative Tools. In case you are unable to locate Adminstrative Tools in the control panel, you may need to switch to 'View all control panel items' from the "View by" menu at the top right in your control panel window.

2. In the Administrative Tools windows, locate "Internet Information Services Manager" and click on it. You can now see a new window with lot of settings / options in it categorised separately under FTP and IIS.

3. The icons under FTP help you to manage the settings of your FTP server like Authorization of access, firewall rules for your FTP, managing access logs and more. The section for IIS settings / options help you tinker with IIS web server options such as managing your default index pages and custom error documents. You can also manage output caching in order to reduce the load on your server. All this and you have many more options to look at and tinker with.

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Nana Parkhe

this information very useful to me thanks
http://www.zwartcomputerconsulting.com Brian Zwart

i have just one question…. when you specify a user for the http://ftp.domain.com in iis 7.0, how do i specify a password for that user? I see no option for that….. help!!!!

Brian
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  You Can Find That Option in FTP Authentication Module
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You Can Find That Option in FTP Authentication Module … For This Module You Need to install all modules of the FTP Package
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i have installed as like as above, but however, i didn’y get the iis manager there. What can i do?
- Anonymous
  
  This is a tested article and it works. May be you have missed on a step or two. So please go through it once again and try, Thankyou!
- http://digitizor.com/ Ricky Laishram
  
  Approce
- dejan
  
  You need to install IIS management console so that you can see IIS manager
  Article stated that FTP is server is enough by itself, but you can’t manage anything unless you install above
Steve

I have followed your steps in creating an ftp server in windows 7 and then started on managing my settings when I discovered that the Internet Information Services Manager does not show up in my list of item under Administrative Tools. What did I do wrong? Thanks.
- http://twitter.com/Lothinator Lothinator
  
  Same issue! All FTP services “installed” and checkmarked under Windows Features, but no IIS manager. Does something ELSE (such as web server, etc) need to also be installed? Please do not skip important steps in guides like this!Same issue! All FTP services “installed” and checkmarked under Windows Features, but no IIS manager. Does something ELSE (such as web server, etc) need to also be installed? Please do not skip important steps in guides like this!
  - frank
    
    go to “turn windows features on or off”
    under “internet Information Services” goto Web management tools and tick the iis management console option
- IT Guy
  
  In order for Internet Information Services Manager to show up in your Administrative Tools List you must first install Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services, formerly called Internet Information Server) on your computer. You can find it in the same features section.(The same place you’ve already installed the FTP Server from.) You can use the following link for a fast and simple install.
  
  http://digitizor.com/2009/02/20/how-to-install-microsoft-iis-server-on-windows-7/
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Hey! GREAT TUTORIAL. nuff said.
Nitin Kumar 0000

i have window7 home premiun what should i do to install IIS ?
Mlnsarma_btechcse

in my administrative tools i am not able to see the iis what i have to do???please help me in giving a good answer?
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  I have the same problem, too.
Goggles957

Go to control panel – programs & features – Turn windows features on or off. Scroll down to Internet Information Services; expand the tree. I had to check each box (in expanded view) before mine would work…
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Pancho2992

I had the same problem, but then I also click on “Web Management Tool” and “World Wide Web Services” and iis manager came out.
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This will be great if it will work. Thanks for sharing it.
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JimP

awesome article, thanks for taking the time to write it up Debjit!

problem: now that I have IIS management tools and the FTP server installed, I can connect to my server both internally on the LAN and externally from the interwebz – I can’t seem to get past the logon prompt though.

from what I understand of FTP thus far, the username and password you provide should be a local user (and in the admin group) on your PC. but it’s not working, so my logic must be flawed….or I don’t have something configured right.

can someone shed some light on this?!

thanks again!
Anonymous

Thank you so much for this list! It is very useful for me.
Anonymous

thanks so much! I’m searching for such information!
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Slappy

Just like all of your other ‘articles’…

How to make a cake.

Step 1: Get bowl, pan, oven and ingredients.
Step 2: Put ingredients in bowl, mix.
Step 3: Put mix in pan, bake.

Suck.
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