I can't get IIS to install in Vista Ultimate

[Snuff]

Actually, the enable or disablefeatures section of the programs bit in
Control Panel seems not to do anything apart from disable features.

I don't know if this is a problem that anyone else has had but from
googling I see that there is stuff on the message I get to the effect
that an error has occurred and not all of the features have installed
properly. For not all, read none.

It's not a huge problem but I wanted to install IIS.

From the command line, I managed to get basic IIS installed but it
does not do anything and there is no sign of it in services. ASP.NET
completes installation from the command line with pkgmgr and gives me
an error level of 0 but from Control Panel - Programs - Enable/Disable
etc it is similarly shown as not installed.

It's not that I need it enough to format, reinstall and hope
but it would be useful as I am trying teach myself a bit of web
application programming and the only option at the moment is to upload
and try to view experiments from the internet or install another
server like apache and fiddle around to get support for asp.net and
hope that MS standards in the visual web developer program tie up with
everyone else's standards in apache etc. Certainly, MySQL doesn't
understand MSSQL without some interference so IIS looked like the
right way to go.

Has anyone else had similar problems and managed to cure them?

 

[DArnold]

Actually, the enable or disablefeatures section of the programs bit in
Control Panel seems not to do anything apart from disable features.

I am using Ultimate, I have no problems using IIS7.

I don't know if this is a problem that anyone else has had but from
googling I see that there is stuff on the message I get to the effect
that an error has occurred and not all of the features have installed
properly. For not all, read none.

If you have done an upgrade from XP or some other NT based O/S, then you
might have some problems. Of if Vista came pre-installed, then again,
you might have some problems.

It's not a huge problem but I wanted to install IIS.

I suggest that you boot of the install CD/DVD, format the HD a lay down
Vista fresh.

From the command line, I managed to get basic IIS installed but it
does not do anything and there is no sign of it in services. ASP.NET
completes installation from the command line with pkgmgr and gives me
an error level of 0 but from Control Panel - Programs - Enable/Disable
etc it is similarly shown as not installed.

I didn't have a problem here.

It's not that I need it enough to format, reinstall and hope
but it would be useful as I am trying teach myself a bit of web
application programming and the only option at the moment is to upload
and try to view experiments from the internet or install another
server like apache and fiddle around to get support for asp.net and
hope that MS standards in the visual web developer program tie up with
everyone else's standards in apache etc. Certainly, MySQL doesn't
understand MSSQL without some interference so IIS looked like the
right way to go.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/beginner/learningpath/

..Net Visual Studio 2005 Express is free to download.

MS SQL Server 2005 Express is free to down load and distribute.

Has anyone else had similar problems and managed to cure them?

Yeah they have, they also said they were formatting the HD, laying down
the O/S and IIS7 fresh.

 

[Snuff]

I am using Ultimate, I have no problems using IIS7.


If you have done an upgrade from XP or some other NT based O/S, then you
might have some problems. Of if Vista came pre-installed, then again,
you might have some problems.



I suggest that you boot of the install CD/DVD, format the HD a lay down
Vista fresh.


I didn't have a problem here.


http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/beginner/learningpath/

.Net Visual Studio 2005 Express is free to download.

MS SQL Server 2005 Express is free to down load and distribute.

Yeah they have, they also said they were formatting the HD, laying down
the O/S and IIS7 fresh.

Thanks for the help on that question. I appreciate it. On the basis
that I usually reinstall at least once a year (or at least used to in
Windows XP) to clear out the junk and freshen things up, maybe I'll
leave it for now...or just wait for the system to fall over and do it
then.

I knew about .NET visual studio and have it but thanks for the tip. I
like the Visual Web Designer and the SQL Express with Visual Studio
stuff. It really is a quality bit of kit. I have given up my Linux
pretensions. I just want stuff to work and the world is a microsoft
place so I am not even going to try to change it.

Apache and MySQL are very good though and if you throw PHP into the
mix you can do lots of intersting stuff!

Snuff