This section provides a tutorial example on how to verify that IIS (Internet Information Services) 5.0 is up and running to provide a Web server.
Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 is a Microsoft product, that offers and manages
the Internet services, like web (HTTP) server and email (SMTP) server.
IIS 5.0 is installed on Windows 2000 by default. I did the following to make sure the
web server is working:
1. Go to Control Panel, then Administrative Tools, then Services, and make sure that
IIS Admin Service is Started, and World Wide web Publishing Service is Started.
2. Go to Control Panel, then Administrative Tools, then Internet Services Manager,
and make sure that the Default Web Site under your local host name is running.
If not, right mouse click on Default Web Site, and select Start command.
3. Create the following hello.html file:
<html><body>Hello world!</body></html>
4. Copy hello.html to \inetpub\wwwroot, which is the directory where the web server will
take the web page files.
5. Run Internet Explorer (IE) with this url: http://localhost/hello.html.
6. If you see "Hello world!" on IE window, you know your IIS web server is serving
HTML pages.
