Adding and Configuring a Web Site

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

As noted in a previous section, you should have copied the MainBossWeb 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 MainBossWeb.

• Click the Select button associated with the "Application pool" field and specify the name of the application pool you have chosen for MainBossWeb—either an existing pool or one you created expressly for MainBossWeb.
• In "Physical Path", specify the folder that contains the MainBossWeb files (e.g. C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MainBossWeb).
• In "Host Name", enter the name through which users will access your MainBossWeb site.
• In "Site Name", enter MainBossWeb (or some other suitable name). This name will be used in the URL for accessing the MainBossWeb services. Specifically, users will access MainBossWeb using the URL
  
  http://HOSTNAME/SITENAME
  
  Therefore if "Host Name" is ourcomputer.ourdomain.com and "Site Name" is MainBossWeb, users will access the software with the URL
  
  http://ourcomputer.ourdomain.com/MainBossWeb
• 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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