Multiple IIS Sites On XP Pro

You can configure multiple IIS sites in XP Pro, but you can only have one running at a time. Not sure why the MMC won’t let you do it, but there is an easy work around.

From the \Inetpub\Adminscripts directory

Find out what the highest numbered site is:

adsutil.vbs ENUM /P W3SVC

To create a new site:

adsutil.vbs COPY W3SVC/1 W3SVC/x

where x is the # of the new site

Here are the detailed instructions.

I have found this to be useful when testing .Net apps without wanting to launch studio.