How To Perform Administration Tasks in IIS from a Command Prompt in Windows 2000 Description: The following article describes how to perform administrative tasks in Internet Information Services (IIS) from the command prompt. There are several tools that aid in the performance of administrative tasks. In this article, these tasks are categorized into three separate task groups; however, all tasks are performed from a command prompt by a user that is a member of the Administrator group in the DriveLetter:InetpubAdminScripts folder. Added on: 12-Oct-2004 Hits: 322 Rate this Site
HOW TO: Create a Virtual Directory in Windows 2000 Description: This article describes step-by-step how to create a virtual directory on an existing Web site in a Windows 2000 environment. A virtual directory is a directory that is not contained within the Web site's home directory, but appears to client browsers as though it were. A virtual directory has an alias that is mapped to the physical location of the Web content. A client appends the alias to the URL of the Web site in order to browse the Web content in that virtual directory. Added on: 12-Oct-2004 Hits: 317 Rate this Site
How To Back Up and Restore IIS Description: This step-by-step article describes how to back up your Internet Information Services (IIS) configuration so that you can easily return to a previous state. Added on: 12-Oct-2004 Hits: 1185 Rate this Site
How To Use Host Header Names to Configure Multiple Web Sites in Internet Information Services 5.0 Description: This article provides step-by-step instructions for hosting multiple Web sites by using a single Internet Protocol (IP) address. Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) allows you to map multiple Web sites with the same port number to a single IP address by using a feature called Host Header Names. By assigning a unique host header name to each Web site, this feature allows you to map more than one Web site to an IP address. Added on: 12-Oct-2004 Hits: 307 Rate this Site
HOW TO: Limit the Header Size of the HTTP Transmission That IIS Accepts from a Client in Windows 200 Description: This article describes how to limit the header size of the HTTP transmission that Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) will accept from a client. Recent exploits perpetrated against Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0 and IIS 5.0 depend on the ability to send large amounts of data in the HTTP application-layer header. Examples of such exploits include the Code Red versions I and II worms. The abnormally large amount of information that is contained in the application-layer header may cause a buffer overflow and could potentially compromise the server. Added on: 12-Oct-2004 Hits: 331 Rate this Site
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