IIS Remote Management (Plesk)
- 15/03/2021 16:16
To connect your PC to the servers IIS service remotely, you can install IIS on your local machine and authenticate with your plesk admin details.
This will require you to:
- Have IIS manager installed on your local machine (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=41177)
- Have your plesk login details to hand. These are found on the welcome email that is sent out when the service is created.
- Have Web deploy Enabled on the site (if you already have this enabled, skip to the Connecting to IIS section)
Enabling Web Deploy
Login to your plesk portal and go to Hosting Settings for your site:Scroll down to the bottom of the page and made sure Web Deploy Publishing is ticked:
Then just click OK to save the changes.
Now you should be ready to connect to IIS.
Connecting to IIS
Launch IIS on your local MachineUnder the Connection section, click the drop down click on Connect to a Site...
Fill in your server name and Site name that you are connecting to:
Enter in your Plesk login details:
As long as the details you've entered in are correct, this should allow you to connect:
You should now have remote Management Access to your sites IIS instance
