Site fails to set up site's testing server

I am attempting to make a dynamic website for internet www publication. I have installed IIS to my PC and created a site folder in the Inetpub wwwroot folder, defined a DNS, set up a local site folder on my desktop, defined the site in terms of remote and local attributes and created a successful connection to a database held in the wwwroot folder. I can see my db and the fields it contains. But I cannot then bind table cells to db fields because MX claims I have not set up a testing server. I am going nuts trying to sort this out. And I have wasted several days trying.

By the way I am using windows XP.

Any help very much appreciated.

Steve