Installation on Windows 2000/XP Professional
IIS/PWS, which I will just refer to as IIS from here on, is a Windows component, so you will need to have your Windows installation disk ready. To start the installation, click on Start>Settings>Control Panel, and double-click on the Add/Remove Programs icon as shown in Figure 1.3.
Figure 1.3. The Windows Control Panel.
NOTE
Your Control Panel may differ from that in Figure 1.3.
Now click on the Windows Component Tab (if you are using Windows XP click on the Add/Remove Windows Components button) on the left-hand side and scroll down until you see Internet Information Services (IIS). Click on Internet Information Services (IIS), then click the Details button in the lower right corner of the window. You should see a screen that looks similar to Figure 1.4.
Figure 1.4. The Windows Component tab.
Now you can select the components you want to install with IIS. By default, Common Files, Internet Information Services Snap-In, Personal Web Manager, and World Wide Web Server should be selected. On Windows XP you will not see the Personal Web Manager option. Also, the World Wide Web Server is actually World Wide Web Services on Windows XP. If these are not selected then you should select them and click OK.
To install, click the Next button. After Windows is finished installing IIS to C:Inetpub, there will be several new items on your computer. In C:Inetpub there are five folders: AdminScripts, iissamples, Scripts, webpub, and wwwroot. The wwwroot folder is where the default Web site for IIS lives. You will be working mostly with this folder and virtual directories.
NOTE
A virtual directory can live anywhere on your computer, but it shows up under the Default Web site. This is extremely useful if you don’t want to keep your Web files under the C:Inetpub directory.
That’s it! IIS is now installed on your machine. With this install you can run HTML and ASP pages. Now it is time to add the PHP CGI Interpreter to your IIS installation. You can either read on to see how this process is completed for Windows 98/ME and the Apache Web Server, or you may just skip straight to Chapter 2 to learn how to install PHP.