Background

All of you might be tried this already, but this is for the one who never worked or configured IIS. This is the first step you need to do when you are going to work with IIS.

Steps to configure IIS in windows

Go to control panel, you can access control panel by typing the command ‘control‘ in the command window ( Window key+R)

Go to control panel by command

Go to programs and features.

Configure IIS in Windows

Click on turn windows features on or off.

Configure IIS in Windows

Please wait for the windows to load the programs.

Configure IIS in Windows

Once everything is loaded, please enable the check box near to Internet Information Services.

Configure IIS in Windows

Please be noted that there are so many configurations, so I suggest you to enable which ever you need, you can see the options by extracting the tree structure.

Configure IIS in Windows

Once you select the features, click on OK. That’s all IIS will be configured in few seconds.

Conclusion

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Background

Yesterday I downloaded and installed WampServer in my local machine. Unfortunately, when I tried to start WampServer, it was not starting at all. I tried all the feasible solutions. I restarted my machine, I closed and re-opened the machine. I did all the options. But the result was always the same. Finally I discovered the solution to resolve this issue. Basically I am a Software Engineer with hands-off experience in Microsoft technologies, so I installed Visual Studio 2010, 2012 and 2013 in my system. As you all know, to work with Visual Studio we all must install IIS in our system. Am I right? So I installed that too. The software was in my system for a long period of time.
Now I installed WampServer in my system. Any server needs a separate port to listen with. And if any of other is using the same port, it won’t work correctly.

Wamp Server And IIS

What a selfish character, right? We are all in a world where we share everything (including knowledge, money, food and so on) but the software does not have this character. They are selfish.

Selfish

So we can’t change their character. Let it be! We will try for an another solution. Here I will share two solutions.

Solution 1: Changing the port

In this solution, we will change the port assigned for WampServer. Let us see how to do that. If you installed WampServer in your machine, you can find an icon in your tool bar. Just click on that icon.

Changing the port in Wamp Server

Click on the httpd.conf under the Apache server section. Now you will get a file opened as follows.

Edit httpd.conf In Wamp Server

From the file, please search for 80Listen and replace 80 with 8080. That’s all. Now if you restart your WampServer, everything will work fine.

Solution 2: Stopping the IIS

If the preceding solution does not work in your case, you can stop IIS in your system. To do so you need to use the preceding procedures.
Go to the command window (you can use Window+R as a shortcut) and type cmd and press Enter.

Command Window

After pressing Enter, you will get a window as in the following.

Reset IIS In Windows

Now if you follow the command as shown in the image, your IIS will be stopped.

Stop IIS In Windows

What you need to do next is, check which one is using port 80. To check, please click on the Apache -> Service -> Test Port 80.

Test Port 80 In Wamp Server

Now you will get output as follows, if everything is fine.

Port 80 Test Result In Wamp Server

Then it is time to run your local host.

Localhost In Wamp Server

Click on the phpinfo(), so that you can confirm there are no errors.

Phpinfo Errors

That is all, we have done it.

Conclusion

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Point of interest

Solutions if your WampServer is not starting, WampServer and IIS conflicts, WampServer and IIS, Windows IIS.

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Unable to Launch the IIS Express Web Server

Background

In my team we have 5 to 10 members. Since we wanted to do a build for our current application, I used “Get the Latest files from the server”. (We are using TFS.) Then when I run my application I was getting this error.

The cause of this error is, someone has checked in the solution file with his port number (the port number he was using). When I took the latest, it was set in my solution file also. We must take the latest solution file only when it is required. So here I will share the remedy for the preceding issue.

Procedure to solve this issue

Step 1

Right-click on your solution and select Properties as shown in the following figure.

Unable to Launch the IIS Express Web Server

Step 2

Select “Web” from the left menu.

Unable to Launch the IIS Express Web Server

Step 3

Under “Use local IIS server” change the port number from http://localhost:58030/ to another one.

Unable to Launch the IIS Express Web Server

Step 4

Here I have changed http://localhost:58030/ to http://localhost:58031/ .

Bingo! We have done it.

Unable to Launch the IIS Express Web Server

Step 5

Now please run again your application. The issue will be solved.

Conclusion

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Sibeesh Venu