Installing IIS

I installed an IIS server on my virtual machine by the use of the add/remove windows components.

Whilst checking the web server service to be installed, a number of other services were set to be installed as well. Windows prompted me twice for the location of the install disk, which i had to change from D:\ drive to C:\.

After the installation was complete I was able to go into Firefox browsing localhost to connect to the web server, however could not browse to it in Internet Explorer. I was able to put a simple html page into the C:\InetPub\wwwroot\ folder named test.htm and navigate to localhost/test.htm in order to view it.

The only web server I have previous experience with is Apache, so it will be interesting to learn some other ones too.