Quick Site Setup with IIS

IIS creates a default Web site and FTP site when you install Windows 2000 Professional. This topic describes how to publish information on those default sites.

To publish content on your Web site

Create a home page for your Web site. See Choosing an Authoring Tool for more information on available tools used in Web site creation.
Name your home page file Default.htm or Default.asp.
Copy your home page into the default Web publishing directory for IIS. The default Web publishing directory is also called the home directory, and the location provided by Setup is \Inetpub\Wwwroot.
If your network has a name resolution system (typically DNS), then visitors can simply type your computer name in the address bar of their browsers 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, see About Name Resolution.

To publish content on your FTP site

Copy or move your files into the default FTP publishing directory. The default directory provided by Setup is \Inetpub\Ftproot.
If your network has a name resolution system (typically DNS), then visitors can type ftp:// followed by your computer name in the address bar of their browsers to reach your site. If not, then visitors must type ftp:// and the numerical IP address of your computer. To customize the appearance of your FTP site, see Setting FTP Messages and Directory Output Style.