IIS or XAMPP Help

Hey,
I have a problem with IIS, I set it up but when i’ve setup by default, I go into my localhost and it asks for username and pass, but I ain’t got a clue what it is.
If anyone can help me install it, would be really helpful! I’m trying this XAMPP, if you think its that much better, tell me and I won’t bother with IIS, but I don’t really get XAMPP.
I really need a this home hosting setup, as i’m starting web development and it would really help if I got this working!
Thanks Been so helpful so far
Answer #1
I suggest you use apache2triad, I’m using it and it includes all your needs in a 100mb package, if you want to stick with IIS generally a administrator password in your windows system will get you in. XAMPP is for home experimenting.
If you are serious about hosting a website on your computer, get apache2triad
http://apache2triad.net/
Answer #2
Thanks mate, downloading it now
Answer #3
Hey,
I have a problem with IIS, I set it up but when i've setup by default, I go into my localhost and it asks for username and pass, but I ain't got a clue what it is.
If anyone can help me install it, would be really helpful! I'm trying this XAMPP, if you think its that much better, tell me and I won't bother with IIS, but I don't really get XAMPP.
I really need a this home hosting setup, as i'm starting web development and it would really help if I got this working!
Thanks Been so helpful so far
First of all, sorry my (bad) english. I’m portuguese…
Anyway, the issue you’ve presented is very simple to resolve. IIS can be configured to grant access to an page to an restricted group of users. This feature is specially important for people who also work with the Active Directory.
The default webpage that comes with Windows 2k3 server uses such access restriction. Using any user \ AD account should grant you access to the refereed page (for example, the credentials you use to access to login to Windows).
Disabling this feature is also very simple. Just enable anonymous access (IUSR_HD) to the page.
To do this, on the IIS Manager, just right click the wepage in question and select Properties. Go to the Directory Security (hum, I don’t know how to translate this – tab maybe – in portuguese separador) and under Autentication and Access Control press Edit.
Right on the top of the window that pops-up, you should see a check box – Enable Anonymous Access. Just select it and apply the new setting.
Now everyone has access to that page.
IIS is good and easy to set-up. Nevertheless, Apache2 is clearly the more solid and reliable solution, specially if running under an *NIX OS.
Hope this helps!
Regards!