Thank you very much for your help. I sincerely appreciate it.

Fist of all, I never installed IIS, and I have no intention of using it. It suddenly showed up on my PC.

I went ahead and tried WampServer, but the symptom was the same as with Xampp. I never installed IIS7. It’s just sitting there all of a sudden. I uninstalled it, and I also disabled the IIS from the control panel. However, I am still getting IIS7′s welcome screen when I click on “localhost” on the WampServer menue.

I went further to look around and found something interesting. There was

iisstart.htm

in a folder called “wwwroot” in “inetpub”, which was place in the root directory. I never installed it. It’s also suddenly sitting there. I suspect this is the culprit, but I am afraid of deleting the folder, as Microsoft has probably put it there. Do you know if deleting it may cause system problems?

As I googled for “inetpub” I found many people complaining about its sudden appearance.

In the “Program Files” folder, there are two sub-folders — IIS and IIS Express, but because they are not on the installed programs list, I have no way of uninstalling them. If you could tell me how to get rid of them, it will be most appreciated.

Thanks again for your help.
Kenji

That said, I did a bit of searching around and found this, which might be helpful for you: http://one7.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/using-xampp-and-iis-together-easy-solution/

Hope it helps
mary

Thanks for your web-cast of the Website local development environment.
I wonder if you could help me.
I used the MODx Swansong template to develop my Website, which is about 75% done. As I tried to understand Wayfinder more and Otienos advised we should not exercise his example on-line, I accidentally found XAMPP for setting up my local environment. XAMPP itself is running fine, but I could not install MODx 1.0.4 on it (Err: IIS 7 : HTTP Error – 404.0 – Not Found). An expert in the MODx Forum said “IIS is grabbing the request before XAMPP.” I disabled IIS, but the problem was not resolved.
My question is, what’s the difference between WampServer and Xampp? Should I use WampServer instead?
If you could advise me, it will be most appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Ken

mary

I followed your MODx tutorials and now have the basic bones of a website running on my local WAMP server (setup using your excellent tutorial). Before I do any more work I would like to know how to port this over to a web server. I have found some instructions in the MODx wiki but it’s all gobbledegook to me! Any chance of one of your excellent tutorials or webcasts on how to do this?

David