Adding and Configuring a Web Site

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This section describes what to do if you decide to implement MainBossRemote as a separate web site.

As noted in a previous section, you should have copied the MainBossRemote files to a subfolder under the folder used by the IIS web service. If you have not done so, do so now.

Start the IIS manager. In the left-hand panel of the IIS manager, expand the entry for the server computer, then click on Sites. In the far right-hand panel, click Add Web Site. This opens a window where you can specify information on MainBossRemote.

• Click the Select button associated with the "Application pool" field and specify the name of the application pool you have chosen for MainBossRemote—either an existing pool or one you created expressly for MainBossRemote.
• In "Physical Path", specify the folder that contains the MainBossRemote files (e.g. C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MainBossRemote).
• In "Host Name", enter the name through which users will access your MainBossRemote site.
• In "Site Name", enter MainBossRemote (or some other suitable name). This name will be used in the URL for accessing the MainBossRemote services. Specifically, users will access MainBossRemote using the URL
  
  http://HOSTNAME/SITENAME
  
  Therefore if "Host Name" is ourcomputer.ourdomain.com and "Site Name" is MainBossRemote, users will access the software with the URL
  
  http://ourcomputer.ourdomain.com/MainBossRemote
• In "Binding", specify the appropriate information (e.g. the port number the web site should use). The default port number is 80, and we strongly recommend that you use this default—anything else will make the URL more complicated, since the port number will have to be specified explicitly. (Also, some cell phone services do not support connections to non-standard port numbers.)
  
  Note that if you're using SSL or TLS security (as discussed in Security Considerations), you specify https as the binding type and then specify an SSL certificate using the drop-down list.
• Click OK to close the window.

Once you have configured the web site, you can start it. In the left-hand panel, click the entry for the web site. Then, in the far right-hand panel, click Start.

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