Web Site Property Sheet

Web Site Properties - Web Site Property Sheet

On this property sheet, you set the identification parameters for your Web site. For a site IP address to be available on this tab, the TCP/IP setting for the site must first be configured by using the Protocols property sheet in the Windows NT Control Panel Network application. The host header name, and the IP address are optional.

Web Site Identification

Description: You can type any name you want for the server name. This name appears in the tree view of Internet Service Manager. Click the Advanced button to configure host header names.
IP Address: For an address to appear in this box, it must have already been defined for use on this computer in Control Panel. See your Windows NT documentation for more information. If you do not assign a specific IP address, this site responds to all IP addresses assigned to this computer and not assigned to other sites, which makes this the default Web site.
TCP Port: Determines the port on which the service is running. The default is port 80. You can change the port to any unique TCP port number; however, clients must know in advance to request that port number, or their requests fail to connect to your server. A port number is required and cannot be left blank.

Connection

Unlimited: Select this option to allow an unlimited number of connections to occur simultaneously.
Limit to: Select this option to limit the maximum number of simultaneous connections to the site. In the dialog box, type the maximum number of connections permitted.
Connection Timeout: Sets the length of time in seconds before the server disconnects an inactive user. This ensures that all connections are closed if the HTTP protocol fails to close a connection.
Enable Logging: Select this option to enable your Web siteÆs logging features, which can record details about user activity and create logs in your choice of format. The logs can tell you which users accessed your Web sites and what information they accessed. After enabling logging, select a format in the Active log format list. The formats are as follows:
Microsoft IIS Log Format: A fixed ASCII format.
NCSA Common Log File Format: The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) common format; a fixed ASCII format.
W3C Extended Log File Format: A customizable ASCII format, selected by default.
ODBC Logging (Only Available with IIS): A fixed format logged to a database.

The default format is W3C Extended Log File Format, with Time, Client IP Address, Method, URI Stem, and HTTP Status selected. For more information about W3C Extended Log File Format, in the property sheet, click Properties and then click Help.

To configure the criterion by which log files are created (for example, weekly, or by file size), or to configure properties for W3C Extended logging or ODBC logging, click Properties.

Note Logging modules are not installed until the Microsoft Management Console IIS snap-in is run for the first time. If Internet Service Manager (HTML) is run before the snap-in is run for the first time, the drop-down list box will read "No logging modules are currently installed". In order to install logging modules in Internet Service Manager (HTML), run the IIS snap-in in Internet Service Manager first.