Before configuring EZproxy to run as a service, you must have already installed and configured EZproxy. See Install EZproxy for Windows for the installation steps that must be performed before you configure EZproxy to run as a service.
Caution: OCLC does not recommend running EZproxy and Microsoft IIS on the same server, nor do we support such configurations.
To install or remove EZproxy as a Windows Service, you must open a command prompt window as an administrator.
To do this, go to Start > All Programs > Accessories. Right-click Command Prompt > Run as administrator > Continue.
To install EZproxy as a Windows service, open an Administrator command prompt, change your current directory to your EZproxy directory, and issue the command:
ezproxy -si
Then you can start EZproxy running with the command:
net start ezproxy
Regardless of how you install EZproxy as a Windows service, from an Administrator command prompt window, use the commands:
net stop ezproxy ezproxy -sr
to remove EZproxy from running as a service.
If you update config.txt, you need to restart the service. See Restart EZproxy for more information on how to restart EZproxy.
If you installed an older version of EZproxy with the -sw option for IIS compatibility, you can change back to the -si form with the commands:
net stop ezproxy ezproxy -sr ezproxy -si net start ezproxy