IIS and Virtual Directory

IIS [Internet Information Services]—provided by Microsoft

ASP.NET towards windows requires IIS5.0 or later

ASP.NET towards Linux requires Apache webserver

-> After installing IIS:-

http://localhost ---> if it is personal pc

http://servername ---> if IIS is running in remote location [network environment]

IIS installation comes with website called default website. This default website will maintain a link to physical path[c:\inetput\wwwroot]. This default website is provided with port number 80. Internet Services Manager tool[inetmgr.exe] is provided to configure web-server.

                          C:\INETPUB

                               |

             ---------------------------------------

             |                                                          |

           WWW Root(http)                     Mail Root(SMTP)

                                                                         |

                                ------------------------------------

                                |                            |                     |

                              Queue            Badmail                Drop

                 (Outgoing mails are      (Bounced mails     (incoming mails       

                          stored here)                 are                    are stored here)           

                                                             Stored here)

Start – run – inetmgr.exe[ok]

    Website           |        HomeDirectory                 

       |                       |             |                       

   Tcpport 80     |      local path---c:\inetpub\wwwroot

The webpages placed into c:\inetput\wwwroot are the pages placed into defaultwebsite.

Note: - if oracle 9i is installed, it comes with oracle http server, in this case IIS will not be running [working], hence stop oracle httpserver by going to services[services.msc] of O/S before execution of your http websites.

Or

Goto taskmanager and stop oracle.exe,apache.exe[all],java.exe[if present].In the case of java.exe after stopping it just stop inetinfo.exe then automatically it will restart now you u can debug ur program.

- To open IIS just goto run-->type inetmgr

- In inetmgr you can create virtual directory only with default 

   Portno 80

- To restart IIS services then on command prompt c:\>iisreset /restart

    

Configuration of IIS

          

Virtual Directory: is an alias to physical directory present in website. The importance of virtual directory is categorization of WebPages with in website and applying security.

Creating Virtual Directory:

Start – run – inetmgr.exe [ok] --> Internet information Services

         IIS

          |

         xxx(localcomputer)

            |

            |--websites

                   |

                 Defaultwebsites

                        |

                      Rt click, select new ---> virtual directory

                                                   |

                                                 Alias – AnyName

                                                   |

                                     Directory – d:\virtual[foldername]

                                          |

                                        Finish

Browser:

         http://localhost/AnyName/default.html

Note: - by default every virtual directory created under defaultwebsite will work with default port 80.