Install IIS8 on Windows 7?

Question

I am currently looking at updating my development environment, trying to replicate IIS on my web server. My production web server is new and has only recently been deployed with Windows 2012 and IIS8 servers.

I work on a windows 7 machine locally.

Is it possible to install IIS8 on a Windows 7 machine?

And if so, how can I do this?

Answer 1

This is an ideal virtual machine scenario. I would install some flavor of virtualization software and install the version of Windows Server that you use to produce on it. Thus, when IIS8 starts up, it will be in an environment that is much closer to your production web server; -)