Set up a local Web Server (IIS):

Windows XP comes, natively, with a version of IIS (Internet Information Services). We want to ensure that yours is a clean install, so to ensure that it is installed, and running, follow the following steps:

Click Start, click Control Panel, and click Add or Remove Programs.
Click Add/Remove Windows Components. The Windows Components Wizard appears.
If IIS is installed, uninstall it and reboot. Otherwise…
Return to step 1, but install IIS and its default components
Reboot.

Once you have IIS installed, you need to make sure it is working. To do so, open a web browser, and point it at http://localhost

If you receive a ‘You are not authorized to view this page’ error, IIS is running, but permissions are incorrect. Try this:

Right-click on C:\Inetpub, select properties
Click on the security tab. If you don’t have a security tab, turn off Windows Simple File Sharing, reboot, and come back.
Select the user ‘Internet Guest Account’
Make sure there is a check mark in the Allow Column for the Read permission.

If it isn’t working yet, try this:

Start > Settings > Control Panel. Double-click on Administrative Tools.
Double-Click on Internet Information Services.
Unroll the menu until you can see Default Web Site.
Right-click on Default Web Site and select properties.
Select the Directory Security Tab. Click the Edit button in the Anonymous access section.
In the Modal dialog that appears, uncheck Anonymous access, and check Integrated Windows authentication.