Installing and Enabling IIS and FTP on Windows Server 2012

To install the role using PowerShell, use these steps. PowerShell must be run using Administrator rights. Installing IIS and all subfeatures can be run in 2 commands:

Import-module servermanager

Add-windowsfeature web-server –includeallsubfeature

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To install the role using Server Manager, follow these steps:

Open Server Manager, go to Configure this local server->Add roles and features

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In the Add Roles and Features Wizard, select Role-based or feature-based installation

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Select the local server listed in the Select a server from the server pool

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Select Web Server (IIS) and the associated roles in the popup

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Select ‘Next’ to the Role Services selection for the IIS Role and check the FTP server and Service boxes

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On the confirmation page verify that the necessary services are included and click ‘Install’

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Now that the role is installed, open IIS management from the Administrative Tools

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Expand the tree to Sites, right click the Sites directory, and click ‘Add FTP Site’ to create a site with an FTP instance name and physical directory

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Configure Binding and SSL. In our case, we’d like to bind to all unassigned IP addresses and do not use SSL

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Enable Basic Authentication and configure authorization. In our case, we start with allowing All users both Read and Write permission as long as all users on the server are password protected

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Click Finish to complete the site creation

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