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Install IIS on Windows VPS

Category: VPS Setup

Set up Internet Information Services (IIS) on a Windows VPS for web hosting—open Server Manager go to Add Roles and Features and select \"Web Server (IIS)\" Include FTP Server and Management Tools—install takes ~5 minutes Configure a site via

inetmgr

binding to your VPS IP (e g 192 168 1 100) and setting C:\inetpub\wwwroot as the root Enable SSL with a self-signed cert via Bindings—generate with

New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName \"example.com\" -CertStoreLocation \"cert:\LocalMachine\My\"

in PowerShell Open ports with

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=\"HTTP\" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=80

On AWS this hosts phpMyAdmin—test at http://ip ensuring uptime for web services

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