Quick Site Setup with IIS

This topic describes the steps necessary to establish Web and FTP sites by using the default Web and FTP sites included with IIS. It outlines how to add content to the default sites. It also describes the steps necessary to add additional sites on the same computer. The following sections are included:

• Setting Up a Web Site
• Setting Up an FTP Site
• Adding Additional Sites

Setting Up a Web Site

This section describes how to use the Default Web Site included with IIS to quickly set up a Web site.

1. Create a home page for your Web site. See How Web Pages Are Made for more information on available tools used in Web site creation.
2. Name your home page file Default.htm. If you want to use another name, you must start Internet Service Manager, click Default Web Site, click the Properties button on the Toolbar, choose the Documents property sheet, and add the file name to the top of the list of enabled default documents.
3. Copy your home page file into the Default Web Site home directory for IIS. The default home directory offered in Setup is \Inetpub\Wwwroot.
4. If your network has a name resolution system, then visitors can simply type your computer name in the address bar of their browser to reach your site. If your network does not have a name resolution system, then visitors must type the numerical IP address of your computer. For more information on name resolution systems, see About Name Resolution.

Setting Up an FTP Site

This section describes how to quickly make content available on your FTP server.

1. Copy or move your files into the Default FTP Site home directory. The default directory offered in Setup is \Inetpub\Ftproot.
2. If your network has a name resolution system, then visitors can type ftp:// followed by your computer name in the address bars of their browsers to reach your site. If your network does not have a name resolution system, then visitors must type ftp:// and the numerical IP address of your computer. For more information on name resolution systems, see About Name Resolution.

Adding Additional Sites

You can host multiple Web sites and multiple FTP sites all on one computer by using either multiple IP addresses, or by hosting multiple sites on a single IP address and assigning each site a unique host header name.

1. To use multiple IP addresses to host additional sites, contact your network administrator and ask to have multiple static IP addresses assigned to the computer.

   —Or—

   To use multiple names on one IP address, contact your network administrator and ask to have multiple static names assigned to the computer. For more information about static names and addresses, see About Name Resolution. For information about obtaining Internet domain names and addresses, see Getting an Internet Name and Address.

2. Add the sites by using Internet Service Manager. For more information, see Adding Sites.
3. Assign a unique name, address, and port combination to each site. For background information on host header names, see Assigning Host Header Names, Addresses, and Ports to Web Sites in About Name Resolution. For procedural help in assigning names, see Naming Web Sites.
4. Assign a directory as the home directory for each site. For more information, see Changing the Home Directory.
5. Copy or move your files for each site into their new home directories.

   Note   Older browsers do not support the use of host header names to discriminate between multiple sites hosted on one IP address. To provide support for older browsers, see Supporting Host Header Names in Older Browsers.

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