IIS 7 Site overview
by Pierre Boisvenue. 21/08/2007 7:44:27 AM
IIS 7 is the latest web server iteration from Microsoft found in Windows vista. In a previous article
you will find a listing of the included modules. To be noted that the IIS 7 web server will be made available in the next generation of Server's made by Microsoft.
However not all versions of Vista share the same functionality and for some reason the following modules present in the business edition are not available in Vista Home premium
editions. The missing module in the Home premium editions are showed in Figure 1 as opposed to figure 2 where the Business edition is being showed.
Figure 1
Figure 2
So what is an IIS 7 web site exactly? Well it is well explained in this article and
showed in figure 3.
Figure 3
An interesting aspect of IIS 7 in comparison to previous versions is in regards to how ASP.Net is configured. Some
ASP.Net configurations parameters are now done either via the
IIS7 command line tool Appcmd.exe or via IIS 7 manager.
Of course a site administrator may use IIS manager.
Using either IIS manager or APPCmd.exe may do changes directly to your web.config. In IIS 7, an XML based configuration file
called ApplicationHost.config reside in \windows\system32\inetsrv\config directory.
This file contains configuration information at the server level and impacts all existing server website. This file is really an XML file
and provide yet another mean to configure IIS7, permissions assigment and module. This is an important file to backup. Another
feature of IIS 7 in vista, and soon to be release longhorn server, is the capability to serve more than one web site using different bindings.
This means you can host multiple web sites using only one IP address. The following picture shows a small subset of xml elements presented in ApplicationHost.config.
Microsoft Windows Vista, IIS 7
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