BIRT Analytics installs on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). To prevent end users from logging in to BIRT Analytics, stop the web server on which BIRT Analytics runs, using either a command‑line editor or Windows Services.
Stopping IIS using Services
You use Services to stop, start, or restart a service.
2 In Services, select World Wide Web Publishing Service, then choose Stop from the context menu.
Stopping IIS using a command‑line editor
To stop IIS from a command line, you use the Windows net command. You can also use these commands in batch processes if you need to automate the procedure.
How to stop IIS from a command line
1 Type cmd in Windows➛Start to open a command prompt.
2 In the command‑line editor, type the following command, then press Enter.
net stop w3svc
A response indicates that the service has stopped, as shown in Figure 2‑9.
Figure 2‑9 Stopping IIS from a command‑line prompt
3 To restart the service after the load process finishes, type the following command at the next command prompt, then press Enter:
