Install a Web server on your home computer

The purpose of this assignment is to ready your home computer to be used as a Web development system.

First, install the Microsoft Web server, IIS (Internet Information Server), on the computer you wish to use as a Web development system. (If it is already installed, you can skip this step).

The installation process will create root directory for the Web site on your computer:

   c:\inetpub\wwwroot\

When the IIS installation is complete, create an HTML file that says: "This came from a Web server running on the same computer as the Web client!" and save it in your wwwroot directory. (I called mine "devsystest.htm," but you can use any name you wish).

You can now view that file using your Web client with the URL: http://localhost/<filename>.

When I did it, it looked like this:

Turn in a listing of your HTML file and a screen shot showing it being viewed with a Web client on the same machine.

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