Windows Server 2008 Standard And Dedicated Ip

[zaphodb]

Hi
I have a pc with windows server 2008 (standard) installed. My broadband provider also provides me with a dedicated ip address. Can anyone help with how I configure the server to enable me to host a website using IIS7. I'll apologise in advance as I am very new to managing my own server but I have plenty of web development (vbscript, asp etc) experience.

 

[mmthomas]

Here is a pretty good set of instructions for installing and setting us IIS on Server 2008.

Are you behind a router or firewall? If you are, after you get IIS and your website working on the server, you will need to configure your router or firewall to pass port 80 traffic through and forward it to your server.