IIS Server Setup tutorial (graphic)

How can users on the Internet also be able to browse to the homepage on our own computer? Its solution is to use IIS.
IIS (Internet Information Server, Internet Information Service) is a Web (Web page) service component that includes Web servers, FTP servers, NNTP servers, and SMTP servers for Web browsing, file transfer, News services and mail delivery, which makes it easy to post information on the Web, including the Internet and the local area network. This article will tell you about the configuration and management methods for IIS 5.0 that are in the Windows 2000 Advanced Server Edition.

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Adding and running IIS

First, add IIS

Go to Control Panel, select Add/Remove Programs → add/Remove Windows components, remove the small hooks (if any) before Internet Information Services (IIS), and then follow the prompts to complete the addition of the IIS components. The IIS components added in this way will include all four services, such as Web, FTP, NNTP, and SMTP.

Second, the operation of IIS

After IIS has been added successfully, go to the start → program → admin tools →internet Service Manager to open IIS Manager, right-click on the service with the word "Stopped" and select "Start" to open it.

The first Web server for IIS

First, set up a Web site

For example, the IP address of this machine is 192.168.0.1, its own web page is placed in the D:\Wy directory, the homepage file name is index.htm, now want to build their own web server according to these.

For this web site, we can use the existing "Default Web site" to make the appropriate changes, you can easily achieve. Please right-click on the Default Web site and select Properties to enter the default Web site properties settings interface.

1. Modify the bound IP address: Go to the Web Site window, and then select the native IP address "192.168.0.1" that is required in the Drop-down menu after "IP address".
2. Modify home directory: Go to the Home directory window, and then enter (or use the browse button to select) the "D:\Wy" Directory of your own web page.
3. Add first page filename: Go to the document window, and then press the "Add" button, according to the prompts in the "default document name" after the first file name "Index.htm".
4. Add a virtual directory: for example, your home directory is under "D:\Wy" and you want to enter the "192.168.0.1/test" format to bring up the "E:\All" page file, which "test" is the virtual directory. Right-click on the Default Web site, select new → virtual directory, then enter "test" in the alias, and then follow the prompts to add the success by typing "E:\ALL" in the directory.
5. Effect of the test: open IE browser, the address bar to enter "192.168.0.1" and then press ENTER, this time you can pull up the homepage of your own homepage, the description of the success of the setting!