Next close the properties window and right click on "Default Web Site" again. This time rollover "New" and then click "Virtual Directory" you don't have to do this but it is a good practice. Select a logical name for your virtual directory such as "root" or something similar as to avoid confusion. Now expand "Default Web Site" and you should see the name of your virtual directory.
Expand the directory and you should see all of the files in there that are in your "Home Directory". Relax, you are almost done. Now test to see if your site works. If it works then good job. For reasons why it didn't work consult the Tips section. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Website take a lot of bandwidth so please notice that it will most likely not be fast if you are at home.
Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. Your Permissions may be wrong. If you get error then run the permissions wizard again and read everything carefully. Your site may have not worked because you chose port 80 which is often blocked. Just change the port in IIS and in your router. If Apache is open then close it and also close all processes of it in the Task Manager. For more help Microsoft has great help for IIS so be sure to consult it as well. Visit the site make a username and read the In-site help.
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The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Related Hot Network Questions. Whether it will be received is another story, however. Since you probably have a dynamic IP address, some sites will reject email from dynamic IP addresses.
The last time I checked, gmail wasn't one of them, but others do. Finally, your last hurdle is to bypass the anti-spam filters. One of the more common reasons other than the content, and one that you can handle from your end that emails are rejected as SPAM is because the From: header doesn't have a valid email address ReplyTo:, if present, also needs a valid email address.
If your port 25 is blocked, or you're having problems getting past spam filters, you might want to try PHPMailer. It's a great tool which will do a lot of things, including the necessary authentication.
And if your port 25 is blocked, you can use port an alternate for authenticated users only to connect to gmail. Hi, Jerry Thanks for your detailed guidance. I've tested using the telnet command and the port 25 is not blocked. I just installed it. But when I sent an email, it went into the Badmail folder.
So it even didn't have the chance to be filtered by anti-spam. So it even didn't have the chance to be filtered by anti-spam Regards Warren Top posting fixed The Badmail folder on your receiving system? That would mean the mail got sent, but the receiving system didn't like what it saw I don't use gmail. So you would have to find out what is bad about it.
The easiest way would be to look at the headers for your email, and compare them to headers for a "good" email to see what the difference is. I still recommend PHPMailer - it makes your life much easier.
And please don't top post. Fortunately I managed to send emails to "myself" - localhost. That's enough for testing purpose so I stopped the attempt to send mails to Gmail. I'll definitely have a look at it. In fact it's not long since I started learning PHP. Just searched for "top post" and found that I've broken the netetiquette on usenet newsgroups Thanks for reminding me that. And I hope this post is in a good manner:. I'd recommend you check one of the IIS newsgroups for help.
Alternatively, I use ArgoSoft mail server for testing here. Pretty easy to set up and it does well enough for lightweight stuff.
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