How to Setup Internet Information Services (IIS) on Windows XP

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HTTP Headers contains the header information sent from the server to the web browser. You can control content expiration from here – forcing browsers to request web pages if they're expired. You can change header information sent, Content Rating, or the MIME map – which files are handled by what application.

Custom Errors allows you to customize the error message displayed if a particular error message is encountered. Commonly, this is performed when you have a 404 Page Not Found and want a custom page to be displayed.

Now we went through all that talking about how it affects all of the websites on your machine. Since you are running Windows XP Professional, IIS only supports one website. If you were administering this on a full fledged server, the changes you made here would have affected the entire server. In your case, the entire server is just one site. With that in mind, open the Web Sites folder and right-click on Properties on the Default Web Site.

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