(ITI310) By Eng. BASSEM ALSAID SESSIONS 10: Internet Information Services (IIS)

“Internet Information Services (IIS)” objectives in this session: -Install the Web Server Role. -Create, Configure, and Manage New Websites. -Secure Websites. -Use the Command Line with IIS Improve IIS 7.0 Performance.

“Internet Information Services (IIS)” Internet Information Services (IIS 7.0) is used as a web server; in other words, it is used to serve web pages to clients. A client can be any system (Microsoft or non-Microsoft) running a web browser such as Internet Explorer. A page is requested, IIS creates HTML-formatted pages, and the client receives the HTML page and displays it in the browser.

“Web Servers on the Internet” The most popular web server on the Internet is Apache. It often runs on Unix/Linux. One of the big draws to Linux and Apache is that they’re free. In addition to Linux and Apache, web developers often use MySQL as the database and Perl, Python, or PHP as the programming language. This combination is often referred to as LAMP. Microsoft has long been trying to increase its market share with web servers. One of the things it has done is improve the capabilities and the usefulness of web applications by using ASP.NET and.NET Framework. Additionally, ASP.NET applications can easily tie into Microsoft’s SQL Server. Since these applications run on IIS and IIS runs on Windows, as the popularity of IIS increases, more and more Windows Servers are being deployed specifically to host IIS both on the Internet and within intranets.

Practice I: Install the Web Server Role.

“Create, Configure, and Manage New Websites” HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language): is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser. ASP.NET (Active Server Pages): programming language gives web developers access to Microsoft’s.NET Framework, which allows them to create sophisticated pages quite quickly. You can tell whether the web server serving your web pages is using an ASP.NET application by the extension of the request. IIS 7.0 web applications use the.aspx extension. For example, if you go to the IIS home page, you’ll see this address:

Practice II: Create, Configure, and Manage New Websites

“Secure your Website” When considering the security of you web server and websites, you have a variety of features and tools that are part of IIS 7.0: Authentication: By default, IIS7.0 uses anonymous authentication. Authorization: You can define which resources a user has access to. Certificates: You can verify the identity of a website. ISAPI and CGI restrictions: You can allow/deny dynamic content to run on your server. SSL settings: You can encrypt data between the server and the client. HTTP filters: You can restrict the type of HTTP requests allowed. Roles: You can control security for a group of users. Trust levels: You can grant permissions via ASP.NET code security policy. Users: You can configure user access to web applications.

“Use the Command Line with IIS 7.0” Appcmd.exe utility, which is specifically designed to be used for IIS 7.0 management. “appcmd.exe” command can be found in the directory: %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv Get a list of the websites on a web server, use: appcmd list site Add a Website Using appcmd.exe: appcmd add site /name:NewSite /bindings:”http/*:802:”/physicalpath:”c:\NewSite” Delete a Website Using appcmd.exe: appcmd delete site “NewSite” appcmd /?

“Common Administrative Tasks (IIS 7)” Common administrative tasks in IIS 7 include the following: Configuring a Web Server to Serve Content. Configuring HTTP Settings. Delegating Site and Application Management. Monitoring Activity on a Web Server. Configuring Web Server Security. Configuring Web Application Development Settings.

“IIS7: Complementary Modules” ASP.Net: IIS7 web server has been completely optimized for ASP.NET. It allows the installation of all modules required to run the ASP.NET applications. To use ASP.Net in the development of a web site, we must put all your files in the ASP.NET project folder: C:\inetpub\wwwroot. PHP: To install PHP5, you need to download a zip file which is used to obtain the additional libraries of PHP interpreter. This library is available on the address: Once downloaded we will comply with the following operations: – Installing.Msi file. – Extracting.Zip file – Configuring php.ini – Configuring IIS7.

“IIS7: Complementary Modules” FTP: An FTP server (File Transfer Protocol) is useful to share files between users. To start the FTP service on Windows Server 2008 On the Start menu, click Administrative Tools, and then click Server Manager. In the Server Manager pane, in the Roles Summary section, click Web Server (IIS). In the Web Server (IIS) section, under System Services, click Microsoft FTP Publishing Service and then click Start.

Internal developers want to host an ASP.NET application within the intranet. They ask you to enable a server role to support the application. What server role should you enable? A. TS B. WSRM C. FSRM D. IIS EXERCISE I

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