IIS - Can i upgrade directly from 5.1 to 6 - Asked By shan on 20-Nov-11 11:21 AM

Hello,

I am having XP Professional with IIS 5.1 and .Net 2.o installed and its woking smoothly.

Can i upgrade directly from 5.1 to 7, or do need to switch to 6 before i can move to IIS7. I do not have any plans to shift to any Vista editions currently. I intend to work totally on XP Professional only.

Is this upgradation free of cost...?

Is it Possible....?

How to do it....?

I need to take maximum advantage of IIS7 now.

Thanks

Yes It is Directly possible to upgrade from 5.1 to 7.0.... for the more info refer as below

With the release of WebMatrix it is now possible, because WebMatrix itself brings instalation of IIS Developer Express which is based on latest IIS7x codebase and can be installed on any supported Windows operating system:

• Windows 7
• Windows Vista SP1+
• Windows XP SP3+
• Windows Server 2003 SP2+
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server 2008 R2

IIS Developer Express supports all of the latest IIS7 modules, including URL Rewrite, FastCGI, etc.  It support Classic ASP, PHP and of course ASP.NET development, including integrated pipeline.

How to install on Windows XP

Refer : http://mkdot.net/blogs/latek/archive/2010/07/23/iis7-on-windows-xp.aspx

Hello Shan,

Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7.0) is the next-generation Web server platform for the Windows Vista™ operating system. IIS 7.0 introduces many changes from earlier versions of IIS. These changes can affect the way users interact with IIS either because innovations (some causing breaking changes) may not be obvious to the user or because IIS 7.0 has eliminated features that users of earlier versions may expect to find.

You cannot install IIS 7 on XP. , You can consider the option of Virtual PC. You can install a trial version of Server 2008 with IIS 7 in a virtual PC on XP. If you need it for development purposes, then I suggest using your Microsoft Developer Network Subscription to download Server 2008 and run 2008 (with IIS 7) in a virtual machine under XP.

Windows XP Professional contains IIS 5.1

Windows Server 2003 contains IIS 6

Windows Vista Home Premium and above contains IIS 7

Windows Server 2008 also contains IIS 7

It is now possible to Run IIS 7 - Express on XP, this is a full iis for developing but not deploying web applications.

see

 http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/06/28/introducing-iis-express.aspx

Regards

Hi,

You can upgrade it by following this steps: If you have the SP3 file and its name is windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu.exe, then create a folder in the root of C: and name it sp3, then execute the following command: windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu.exe -x:c:\sp3 When finished extracting, there should exist c:\sp3\i386 containing the extracted files. Now you should be able to use Add/Remove Programs, Windows Components to add IIS and point it to that i386 folder. (If you have another i386 folder in the root of C:, you may want to get rid of it (unless its an SP3 i386, in which case you can install IIS from it)). SP3 Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5B33B5A8-5E76-401F-BE08-1E1555D4F3D4&displaylang=en 

You might consider Upgrade using the Web Platform and IIS Express

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=abc59783-89de-4adc-b770-0a720bb21deb .

And look at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/1010/iis-75-express-readme/ IIS Express Readme information.