Is IIS actually needed on Windows Server 2003 to give my lessons online?

Hi friends,

I'm student community teacher and I want to give one of my lessons online this year,

I will use MOODLE 1.6 for this .. and I will USE MY OWN COPMUTER AS A SERVER..

I'm using Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and I have IIS on my machine.. and I have installed Xampp 1.5.3a for windows version..( contains php,mysql,perl,apache )

At first, Apache couldn't start and couldn't connect to localhost ... Because port 80 is filled with IIS

For So, I had edit " httpd.conf " configuration file from Apache folder , and set the line " listen 80 " to " listen 9090 "

At start Everything was fine , towards I have tried to set new Super user password for Mysql or when changing it :-(

Everythings default port is 80 ,so no unit has defined 9090 :-(

When I write command on console to change pass " mysqladmin -u root password mynewcar " ,

It says: ' connect to server "localhost" failed '

So what can I do now..??


Do I have to use IIS, for publishing my lesson content, on Windows Server 2003 ?

Can I install only XAMPP for publishing, on Windows Server 2003 (without IIS) ?
Waiting for your feedback

Thanks for your convenience ,,

Have a good work!



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If you have another web application server then you don't have to use IIS. If you're running into port conflicts with IIS, then kill the service.