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Silencer
3rd December 2005, 05:59 AM
I installed IIS on my computer. I need it so I can practise my server side scripting with my own computer acting as the server. But now I'm wondering what the URL is to check out the asp-pages.
My teacher said that it was something like http://localhost/... But I can't remember what comes after the local host part.

Also this is a shared computer for 4 people so the folder "My webs" is placed into "My Documents". Anyone know the rest of the URL or how I can figure it out?
mr_pikachu
3rd December 2005, 07:56 AM
Are you sure that "localhost" was part of a URL? Because it's part of the IIS system as well. I found this page (http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/server/iis/default.asp?url=/windows2000/en/server/iis/htm/asp/aint59pv.htm) via an internet search. It discusses key names and paths, and IIS://Localhost is one of them.

You might be able to find what you need at one of the following IIS links, though:

Integrated Information Systems (http://www.iis.com/)
IIS Answers - Support Central for IIS 6 and IIS 5 (http://www.iisanswers.com/)
Internet Information Services (http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsServer2003/iis/default.mspx)
IIS Tips, Tricks, and Resources (http://www.iis-resources.com/)
Silencer
3rd December 2005, 08:23 AM
well there is a difference between IIS://localhost and http://localhost. I found a http on that site, now I'm searching the page and gonna check out the url and the map path to it, maybe I can come up with something this way.

Edit: Tracked the file down to a windows map so I'm pretty sure that's not the way (even made a map with a htm page in and tried to redirect but didn't work). So I'm still open for suggestions
Chris
3rd December 2005, 11:50 AM
Do you have a requirement/burning desire to use IIS? Every system admin I've spoken to has had to go through considerable trouble to get it to work for very little long-term benefit. If you have the choice (and considering it's your own computer, I'd imagine that you do), go for Apache (http://httpd.apache.org) instead. It's much less convoluted than IIS, has much better security, and has fantastic support communities.