Cannot and have never been able to connect to a testing server

Question

Hello
I am using Dreamweaver and am trying to set up a testing site using IIS.  I can’t get it set up.  It says I don’t have administrative privileges.  I am the administrator.  This is a home computer and I am the only user  of the computer. I am just a novice.
I posted my problem in an Adobe forum.  I was told to enter a command in the  administrator command because I am not an administrator (this made me scratch my head???).  The following is what I was told to enter:
icacls %systemdrive%\inetpub /grant  %userdomain%\%username%:(OI)(CI)(F) /grant %userdomain%\%username%:F
it does not work and says there is no command for” icasis”  I am not sure what I need to enter, however.  For system drive I put “C”.  For user name I put the name of my computer. For user name I put my user name.
This is what I ended up with and this is what I put in the administrators command prompt:
icacls %C%\inetpub /grant  %Joe-II%\%jtb%:(OI)(CI)(F) /grant %Joe-II%\%jtb%:F
I am sure this is wrong.
In addition, in properties of inetpub wwwroot it says I have read and write for both administrator and iis_iusrs privilages (I set it up following a DW tutorial).
So why can’t I set up testing server on iis? This problem has gone on for years.  I have newer versions of Adobe and operating systems and I have never been able to set up a testing server.  By the way, this is windows 8 professional.
Any help would be much appreciated.  I would even pay someone to solve my problem but don’t know where I would go to do this.
Joe
<< Response was:
Hello,
I'm sorry to hear you are having issues.
From the information you have provided, it would appear that your issue is based somewhere in the user account permissions configuration on your PC.
I recommend taking the following steps to ensure your user account has administrative permissions:
Open your "Start" menu and right click on "Computer" (or "My Computer" depending on your version of Windows).
Select "Manage".
In the new window titled "Computer Management", select "Local Users and Groups" under "System Tools".
Select the folder labeled "Users" and find your user account in the right panel.
Right click on your user name and select "properties".
Select the "Member of" tab and verify that you see "Administrators."
If not, you can select "Add" and then type "Administrators" in the field labeled "Enter the object names to select".
Please update us with the results once you've followed these instructions and we can troubleshoot based on that further information.
Be sure to let us know of any error messages or pop up windows you encounter.
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My response:
My response:  I did what you asked and I am listed as an Administrator or do see Administrators there.  Thank you for your response. Hopefully you can trouble shoot from what I have replied.
Again, this has been going on for so long.  I would even bee willing to pay to have this problem cleared up.  Again, thanks.
Joe

Answer 1

Perhaps one of the hits returned on a google search "setting up iis server" will help: https://www.google.com/search?q=setting+up+iis+server&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozil la:en-US:official&client=firefox-a.
I sympathize, as I had a lot of trouble trying to set up a localhost server on a Win8 computer. Experienced many false starts. Finally got it working to the extent I could actually work on a WP site locally, but the set up is still weird in that when I uploaded all the new files to make them live, nothing updated. Ended up making all the changes again to the live site.
Chris