Windows 2003 Server
Windows 2003 Server comes with the Internet Information Services
6.0 web
server as part of the operating system. You can check to see if IIS6.0 is
installed by going to the Control Panel and clicking on the Administrative
Tools folder. If the Internet Services Manager is present, then it is
installed.
If IIS6.0 is not installed, you can
install it by going to the Control Panel and clicking on Add/Remove
Programs, then click on the Add/Remove Windows Component link.
Microsoft has instituted a number of security
measures with IIS6.0 that require changes to the web server to enable
School Administrator to work. Follow the steps listed below to make those
changes.
ASP Pages, Session State and the Parent Path options
are disabled by default in Windows 2003 Server. If do not enable this
functionality after installing IIS, IIS returns a 404 error. You can
enable these features through the IIS Manager.
To enable these options:
- In the Start menu, click Administrative
Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS)
Manager.
- Double-click your computer name in the left pane,
and then right-click Web Site.
- Click Properties
in the popup menu.
- Select the Home Directory
tab, and then click the
Configuration button.
- Click App Options, and then
click to select the Enable Session State and Enable Parent
Paths check boxes.
- Click OK two times.
- Right click on the Web Extensions choice in
the left pane.
- Click to Enable ASP extensions.
Click OK
two times.
