Multiple Websites...

External Since: Aug 09, 2004 Posts: 1

Hi,

I just got started administering a new server, and have a noob question and
would appreciate a point in the right direction (e.g. FAQ)

At my new organization, they have multiple websites on IIS 5, with each
website having multiple virtual directories. They were not aware that all of
their virtual directories were web accessible....

I guess I have a couple problems:
1) Only the data for one of the websites is accessible via
http://localhost/. For example, you can type http://localhost/site1/, and
access all of site1, including any of its virtual directories. However, you
cannot access site2, site3, site4 etc... Is site1 somehow the default? Is
there a way I can access the other sites via localhost?

2) What is the normal way for developing and testing a site prior to making
it live? In the past, I developed on one machine, then uploaded the finished
data to the server. Now it seems as though I need to develop on the server
itself, including testing dynamic pages (via the server), without actually
making them publicly accessible.

Any hints?

Thanks,
gruvn

External Since: Apr 11, 2004 Posts: 87

First I'd start by cleaning up the Virtual Directories. Why not make your
job a little bit easier down the road now.

Second... If you are/have a network and you have a machine that your work on
you could give the Server an internal IP as well and set this up as your
test area. So if say your internal IP configuration is 192.168.0.0, you
could assign the server an IP of 192.168.0.1 and the rest of your internal
network would be on the same IP scheme and you would connect to the server
by <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://192.168.0.1" target="_blank">http://192.168.0.1</a> from any internal computer on the network. You can
have multiple IPs on Windows 2000 Server/Pro.

--

Regards,

Carroll

"gruvn" <gruvn.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I just got started administering a new server, and have a noob question
and
> would appreciate a point in the right direction (e.g. FAQ)
>
> At my new organization, they have multiple websites on IIS 5, with each
> website having multiple virtual directories. They were not aware that all
of
> their virtual directories were web accessible....
>
> I guess I have a couple problems:
> 1) Only the data for one of the websites is accessible via
> <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://localhost/." target="_blank">http://localhost/.</a> For example, you can type <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://localhost/site1/," target="_blank">http://localhost/site1/,</a> and
> access all of site1, including any of its virtual directories. However,
you
> cannot access site2, site3, site4 etc... Is site1 somehow the default?
Is
> there a way I can access the other sites via localhost?
>
> 2) What is the normal way for developing and testing a site prior to
making
> it live? In the past, I developed on one machine, then uploaded the
finished
> data to the server. Now it seems as though I need to develop on the
server
> itself, including testing dynamic pages (via the server), without actually
> making them publicly accessible.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Thanks,
> gruvn