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Setting up MATLAB Web Server
with Internet Information Services (IIS)

 

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NOTE: As of R2006b, the MATLAB Web Server is no longer available for sale and no new feature development or further bug fixes will occur. More information can be found here.

If you want to set up a user-friendly web server to use with MATLAB Web Server, Internet Information Services (IIS) is a good start. The following step-by-step guide will help you through this set up process:

1. If not already installed, install Microsoft's Web Server From the Add/Remove Program wizard:
   1. Go to Start-->Settings-->Control Panel-->Add/Remove Programs.
   2. Click on the Add/Remove Windows Components button to bring up the Windows Components dialog box.
   3. Double click on "Internet Information Services (IIS)" to go into the options for IIS.
   4. At the very bottom on the list, click on World Wide Web Server.
   Note: Make sure you have all other web services (such as Apache) stopped.
2. Make sure the Default website is running:
   1. Go to Start-->Settings-->Control Panel-->Administrative Tools-->Internet Services Manager.
   2. Make sure the "Default Website" is "Running".
   3. If not, right click on it and click start.

3. (Optional) You can make sure you properly installed IIS by launching your web browser and pointing to http://localhost.
4. If successfully installed, your browser window should look like this:

5. Now change the Default Website properties:
   
   
   1. Launch the IIS MMC console again by Start-->Settings-->Control Panel-->Administrative Tools-->Internet Services Manager.
   2. Right-click on Default website and choose Properties.
   3. Go into the "Home Directory" tab.
   4. Change the "Local Path" to the location of the webserver demo. For this example, the path is d:\Applications\MATLAB6p1\toolbox\webserver\wsdemo.
   5. With everything set, it should look like the following:


6. Click on the "Documents" tab and make sure index.htmll is listed there. If it is not listed, add it.
   
   
7. Click OK to close the Default web site property window.
8. Create 2 virtual directories, or aliases, cgi-bin and icons and point them to d:\Applications\MATLAB6p1\toolbox\webserver\wsdemo.
   
   
   1. Right-click on the Default Website at the IIS console.
   2. Click on New; and click on Virtual Directory This will bring up the Virtual Directory Wizard.
   3. Follow the directions, typing icons for the name, and pointing to d:\Applications\MATLAB6p1\toolbox\webserver\wsdemo. Leave everything else as default.
   4. Repeat the same for cgi-bin, but make sure the permissions are set to executable at the last step in the wizard.
9. Browse to http://localhost to see the demo.