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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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An IIS Worker Process (w3wp.exe) handles the web requests sent to the IIS web server for the configured IIS application pool. IIS application pools also provide a bunch of advanced settings. These impact the behavior of w3wp and your IIS worker process.
IIS help providers and parents determine when immunizations are due and help ensure that children get only the vaccinations they need.
Internet Information Services (IIS, formerly Internet Information Server) is an extensible web server software created by Microsoft for use with the Windows NT family. IIS supports HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP and NNTP.
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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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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