Replicating my site on win 7 IIS7 for local development

I am new to Zen Cart and still learning Zne Cart and this forum rules. I am using Zen Cart 1.3.9 and basically want to replicate my webiste on my PC for development. So I have installed IIS7 but get the following error on IIS7 /localhost/mywebsite/zc_install/ - "HTTP Error 404.3 - Not Found.
The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the extension configuration. If the page is a script, add a handler. If the file should be downloaded, add a MIME map."

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

There are lots of steps involved in getting IIS set up to run PHP and MySQL.
You'd be much better off using a bundled package such as XAMPP to set up a local webserver capability.

Thanks DrByte for the quick response and pointing me in the right direction.

DrByte, I installed and got WAMP running and now I get stuck on this message

"Current SQL Cache Folder = /sweetus/cache -->Unwriteable Click here for more info"

Please bear with me, these are inital hiccups and part of my learning curve.

So how do I set the permissions for the cache folder or the whole shop folder under WAMPServer 2.0 root on a Win 7 64 bit PC?

I'm guessing you would simply right-click the folder and choose an appropriate option, like Security or maybe Sharing, or something, and then give Everyone all permissions.

You can probably find help for that general topic on the support site for the software you elected to install.

I have tried that a number of times and changing the read only attribute in Properties, seems like it did something, does not help because the read only attribute comes back the moment I hit okay.

Vista/Win7 handle permissions differently than XP did, and it's more complicated now.
One thing I've heard people report is that it's important to install the webserver software to the root of the drive, and not under Program Files or My Documents, since permission control in those areas is much harder to do.

Again, since you've chosen WAMPSERVER, I suggest you go to their support forum for help using their software with your operating system.

Alright, thanks for your help.

And I did install under Program Files wrongly assuming I will be able to put my website anywhere I like.