>I have a project which I can run under Visual Studio. I'm at the point of wanting to run this project, or having somebody else run this project, using my computer as the web server. The reference book I'm using says to
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>Open the project
>Website--> Copy Website
>Select all files in the "Source Web site" mover
>Hit the connect box
>Select the target in the resulting "Open Web Site" dialog box
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>Newbie dumb question..........................
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>What is the correct directory to use for Local IIS? Do I have to configure IIS in any way and, if so, how do I do that?
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>Many Thanks...............Rich

Sounds as if you are referring to the ASP.NET development server?
That only accepts requests from the local computer - you'll need IIS to access web content from other machines.
What's the OS on the dev machine ?