First of all, it should be said that this is possible only with paid hosting plans. I have the Developer plan myself and it works there. I do not have any Basic web hosting available (so I have no way to verify whether it works there), only free hosting plans, and there it does not work: they do not even appear in the drop-down list on the IIS Manager page in the Client Section, where IIS users would be displayed. In my case, the client section looks like this:
The first step is to install Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 Manager from the page 👻 A page used to live here. Now there is only wind and weeds..
Then install this component and launch it from the Start menu as Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager or Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 Manager. Both shortcuts now point to the same thing. The program’s GUI should look something like this:
In the left part of the window, in the Connections box, click the first icon and choose Connect to a site... from the menu. On the first page, enter the server, whose exact name you will find in the client section, so just copy and paste it, and in the site name field enter the name of your hosting including www.. The www. part is important; without it it will not work, it will just show a certificate error and end with a 401 Unauthorized error.
On the second page of the wizard, copy the Login name, which will look something like {nazev_vaseho_hostingu}_{vami_zadany_login}, and paste it into the User name field. In the Password field, of course, type the password you chose and click Next. If you did everything right, the final part of the wizard will appear, where you only need to choose the name under which this IIS connection will be listed.
And now you can change all the settings just as on a local IIS. The only thing is that some add-ons used by IIS at ASPOne may be downloaded; in my case 5 of them were downloaded, for example PHP for IIS.
And if my guide is not enough for you, you can use the guides from ASPOne directly at https://www.aspone.cz/cz/Zakaznicka-podpora/ , specifically these 3 sections:
- Creating IIS access using our Client Section
- Installing IIS 7 Manager on Windows XP
- Connecting to a website using IIS 7 Manager
EDIT December 7, 2014: The installation package linked in the text does not work on Windows 8.x, so if you have a newer OS, download its newer equivalent: 👻 The Microsoft installer is gone for good.