install IIS8 on windows 7?

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amateur picture amateur · Sep 19, 2012 · Viewed 11.8k times · Source

I am currently looking at upgrading my development environment in an attempt for it to replicate IIS on my production web server. My production web server is new and only recently spun up with windows server 2012 and IIS8.

I am working on a windows 7 machine locally.

Is it possible to install IIS8 on a windows 7 machine?

And if so, how can I go about it?

Answer

blearn picture blearn · Sep 19, 2012

This is a perfect scenario for a virtual machine. I would install some flavour of virtualization software and install the version of Windows Server that you are using in production on to it. This way, when you run IIS8 it will be in an environment that is much closer to your production web server ;-)

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