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Configuration & Modification of a Web Site

Training Division,NIC 1

Practice session of IIS Administration.

Do the following steps for creating a new web sites.

1. Logon as a user in the Administrators group.

2. Create home directories for Web

sites, such as labsite1 and

labsite2.

3. Launch the Internet Services

Manager snap-in by pointing

StartProgramsAdministrative

ToolsInternet Services Manager.

3. To start Web Site Creation

Wizard, right click on the server

(or computer) icon, thenNewWeb

Site.


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Web Site Creation Wizard starts.

ClickNext to continue.

4. Enter a description for the new

WEB site, such as Myweb.


5. IP address needs to be specified

for users to reach the Web server.

Click the drop-down box to select

the available IP address, which

should be the IP address of the

current Windows 2000 Server.

For example, 192.168.0.x is the

available IP address, where x will

be your cabin NO.

6. You can enter 991 as the TCP

port, but remember the standard port

is 80 for HTTP.

Background

Multiple Web sites can be created on

the same physical machine. Usually,

the best way is to create a Web site

with a unique IP address. However,

different combinations of IP

address, Port number, and Host

Header allow multiple web sites

created as well.

However, when SSL is configured in

one of the web sites on the same


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machine, modification of Host Header

is not applicable to create

different website


7. Enter the path for the home

directory of this new Website site

by doing one of the following:

Typing the local path of the home

directory if it is located

physically in the same machine, such

as C:\labsite1.

Click Browse to locate the directory

Typing the UNC path of the home

directory if it is located somewhere

on the network, such as

\\w2ksrv\labsite1, where labsite1

must be a shared folder on the

machine: w2ksrv.

Background

When Web clients or users initiallyconnect to this Web site, they will

be placed in the home directory. The

home directory is the root

directory for the web site. From the

root directory, subdirectories

including the real subdirectories

under the home directory and the

virtual directories can be created,

in order to organize the files

available for upload or download.

8. CheckAllow anonymous access to

this Web site.

After the path is entered, click

Next to continue.



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Modifying Web Site Properties

Web Site Creation Wizard allows

simple configuration of a Web site.

However, properties of the Web site

can be modified to meet different

needs.


Manager (or Internet Information

Services snap-in).

2.Right click on the Web site for

modifications.

3. Point to Properties.

Web Site

Web Site IdentificationYou can change the description, IP

address and TCP Port here for the

Web Site. Advanced setting for the

IP address and Host Header can be

starting by click the Advanced

button.

Connections

The number of connections to the

system can be limited.

Enable Logging

This allows administrators or site

operators to keep track of what is

happen on the system by logging

different activities. There are

different log formats can be used:

Microsoft IIS Log Format, W3C

Extended Log File Format, or via

ODBC Logging.

Operators Properties

Windows 2000 accounts can be used to

define and authenticate users as

operators of the IIS. When users

become the operators, they can:

modify Web server access permissions

and logging; modify default Webdocuments and Web site footer, and

modify page content expiration, HTTP

headers and content ratings.


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Performance

Performance Tuning

Three different performance turning

can be selected depends on hits

expected per day of the Web site.

Bandwidth and process throttling

could be enabling in the Performance

panel in order to limit the

bandwidth, processing power, and

other resources of the system.

Home Directory

The configurations including the

location path, access control and

other settings for the home

directory can be modified.

Documents

The list of default documents can be

modified here. Default.htm and

Default.asp were the two default

documents for browser to open the

default page. In many case, the

default page may have a different

name, such as index.htm or

index.html. Thus, those filenames

must be entered to make the browser

to open the default page of the Web

site.

ClickAdd to start adding a new

document name.


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Enter the document name, such as

index.htm, index.html, welcome.htm

and etc.

The order of listing the default

page can be changed by using the up

and down buttons.

Directory Security

This allows you to control who

accesses the Web site based on

authentication, client IP addresses,

or access control list (ACL)

settings on files. Secure

communications can also be specified

when clients connect to the Web

site.


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4. Click Edit of Anonymous access

authentication control will bring up

the Authentication Methods window.

The default settings should work for

most cases. Changes can be made

based on specific needs.

Click OK to close the window.

5. Click Edit of the IP address and

domain name restrictions.

Administrators can control whoaccesses to the Web site based on

client IP addresses.

7. Check Granted Access.

8. ClickAdd button to add the

exceptions.

9. Select Single computer.

Enter an IP address, which will be

denied to access the Web site.

Click OK to continue.


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Then, all computers (or IP

addresses) will be able to access to

the Web site except those listed in

the bottom panel.

Start, Stop and Restart a Specific FTP/Web Site

Launch the Internet Services Manager

(or Internet Information Services

snap-in) as show in the figure on

the right.

Background

A full reboot of IIS requires a

system reboot. However, normally,

you can just start, stop or pausedifferent individual Web or FTP site

by selecting the site without

affecting other sites.


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Testing a Web Site


Manager snap-in by pointing

StartProgramsAdministrative

ToolsInternet Services Manager.

Right click on a Web Site, and point

to Browse.

Internet Explorer should open the

Web site as shown in the figure on

the right. The URL of the site in

this example is:

http://102.168.59.101:991/

You should realize the port number

was specified and must be specified

in order to get access to the Web

Site. Therefore, you can try the use

the URL to access to Web site from

Windows 2000 Professional.