Channel 9 Forums - Tech Off - How do you set up a public website on a Windows server? http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Tech Off - How do you set up a public website on a Windows server? http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Sat, 18 May 2013 22:03:26 GMT Sat, 18 May 2013 22:03:26 GMT Rev9 4 -4 -1 Tech Off - How do you set up a public website on a Windows server? Today I start setting up a new web server for our small, non-profit.  Because none of us are sys admins, we're be doing basically what the previous person did, when he set it up on the old server years ago.  We have public facing website for our non-profit, what I like to call "brochureware".  It describes who we are, where we're located, etc.  The previous guy placed this all in wwwroot. Not a folder within wwwroot, just wwwroot.  I've always felt that was probably wrong, but I didn't know any better, and I certainly wasn't in charge of it back then.  Now that it falls on me, I don't know what I'm supposed to do, so I'd appreciate some help on this, please.

We're working on a Windows Web Server 2008 R2.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/How-do-you-set-up-a-public-website-on-a-Windows-server/8c719eef74e34edba37ba03e00c5b051#8c719eef74e34edba37ba03e00c5b051 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:59:45 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/How-do-you-set-up-a-public-website-on-a-Windows-server/8c719eef74e34edba37ba03e00c5b051#8c719eef74e34edba37ba03e00c5b051 Doctor Who 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Doctor Who/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - How do you set up a public website on a Windows server? Putting it in wwwroot is fine if you're only hosting a single web site on that box. It's not ideal - ideal would be a separate directory on a separate drive/partition to the OS, but if you;re not confident with it then wwwroot will work just fine - just delete the default files in there.

 

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It's fortunate that you're on IIS7. On IIS 6 only Enterprise edition of Windows server can create more than one siteroot, so you'll have more to consider.

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, cheong wrote

On IIS 6 only Enterprise edition of Windows server can create more than one siteroot, so you'll have more to consider.

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IIS 6 supports multiple website instances on all editions of Server 2003, even Home Server. Indeed, Web Edition would be somewhat useless otherwise.

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