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Simple IIS Web Site With DNS Entry Build

We wish to build an IIS web site and add a pointer to it in our DNS server so network users can easily get to it in a web browser.

We assume that you have a working Windows server with IIS installed on it. You also have a DNS server somewhere on your network.

To Create the Web Site:

On the web server, in Windows Explorer:

Navigate into the Inetpub folder

In the folder that also contains the wwwroot folder create the folder that will hold your web site (no spaces in the folder name)

Open IIS Manager

Go to the web server name

Web Sites

Right click

Choose New Web Site (use the wizard, pointing to the folder created above)

Right click on the new web site name

Choose Properties

In the Web Site tab:

Advanced

Multiple Identities

Add

Enter port 80

Enter header name (the name you want the user to type into their web browser to get to this web site)

Delete the Default, port 80 entry

Add an Entry to DNS for This Web Site:

Open the DNS console

Go to the DNS server name

Forward Lookup Zone

Choose the name of the domain

Right click

New Host (A)

Enter the URL name (the name the user will type in the browser)

Enter the web server's IP address

Now when the user open their web browser they should be able to put the web site's name (with or with out the http://) and DNS will point them toward the correct web server. When the web server sees the user's incoming request for this web site it will know where to get the web page to send back out of the many web sites that may exist on this web server.

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