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What does IIS consist of and how does it work?

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iis

I have created and configured websites for some time now, but I never really understood what IIS is.

Is it an executable? A group of executables? Some DLLs? What is its relationship with W3wp.exe?

Is this explained anywhere in MSDN?

Thanks.

[EDIT] Ok, it's inetinfo.exe. I have found a detailed description here: http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/howaspnetworks/howaspnetworks.asp

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Cosmin Avatar asked Mar 11 '11 16:03

Cosmin

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IIS is a server process that hosts web applications in a Windows environment.

Learn about it here: http://www.iis.net/

As I mentioned in the comment above: w3wp.exe is a web process spawned by IIS for each application pool that you have configured and running.

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Infotekka Avatar answered Oct 14 '22 04:10

Infotekka

From Wikipedia

Internet Information Services (IIS) – formerly called Internet Information Server – is a web server application and set of feature extension modules created by Microsoft for use with Microsoft Windows

It is an exe (InetMgr.exe)

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Julius A Avatar answered Oct 14 '22 02:10

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