Server Question - IIS

[Cartoonite]

a different response could have been more motivating.

How's this for motivation?

sweeeet.  i just saved like 100 bucks a year.

No offense, but it is readily apparent that you really don't know much about operating a web server.

A word of warning: if you try to run it off your own PC without configuring it properly, you will leave your server vulnerable. In the end, if you don't research this properly, you will end up costing yourself more in time invested in repairing damage you have inadvertantly done than you could possibly save be not paying someone else to host your site for you.

Aussiecanuck46 was kind enough to post a link to the basics of Administering the IIS service, and I'm sure there are plenty of getting started guides available in various forms on the internet. All of which are likely free and will serve you much better in the long run than any amount of question and answer on a forum like this will.

[Clint]

a different response could have been more motivating.

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Yes, you are welcome

[smithxi]

well i'd just like to see this work. sorry if i'm getting frustrated. i'll research iis as much as i can, but can you tell me what kind of vulnerabilities i might be prone to, before i leave this topic alone, and how i can prevent them?

and i just don't understand how iis takes over when a domain is forwarded to this computer, and how it knows what folder to look in for what file types. thanks anyways for the help. i know i'm a noob, but i'll keep trying.

Edited September 14, 2005 by smithxi

[At0mic]

Sorry to head this interesting discussion into a slightly different angle guys but personally I would hit IIS on the head and use Apache. Bundle it with MySQL + PHP and you have yourself a very nice webserver indeed.

[smithxi]

i have apache and mysql installed on this computer.

i just don't understand how to forward my domain name to this pc and how to make apache or iis direct it to a certain config or folder or index file on this pc.

Edited September 14, 2005 by smithxi

[At0mic]

arrange for your domain name to be pointed to your IP address (providing its static) with whichever company is holding it. Now all you have to do is go into your router/firewall and configure port forwarding so port 80 is forwarded to the IP of your server.

if your using Apache, the index file needs to go in htdocs.

if your using iis, the index file needs to go in Inetpub (i think you have to configure iis in administrative tools to enable index.htm files because normally its just default.htm files that get opened where you type a url in the address bar without specifying an htm file)

Edited September 15, 2005 by At0mic

[smithxi]

that was the down to earth answer i needed. thank you.

[D.Celt]

Bear in mind that XP is limited to 10 concurrent connections, this will severely affect the performance of your website.

[Lost Soul]

heres a simple easy to follow guide for you to use as your reference since your new to setting up servers

Setting Up a Windows Web Server

http://www.enscape.net/?id=114

im sure youll find it very informative for you and it will show you all the basics that you need to know,,,

if then you get very technical i suggest bumping your os up to ms windows server 2003

[smithxi]

arrange for your domain name to be pointed to your IP address (providing its static) with whichever company is holding it. Now all you have to do is go into your router/firewall and configure port forwarding so port 80 is forwarded to the IP of your server.

if your using Apache, the index file needs to go in htdocs.

if your using iis, the index file needs to go in Inetpub (i think you have to configure iis in administrative tools to enable index.htm files because normally its just default.htm files that get opened where you type a url in the address bar without specifying an htm file)

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so when the dns asks where to point i simply put...

http://myip ?

or is it

http://myip/c:/inetpub/

???

also im getting this error when trying to redirect a free .tk domain to my ip when i use http://myip as the direction to point to the server

In order to send all your visitors to the right spot, we need to know the exact location where your current existing website or homepage resides.

Your current web address

It seems that the URL you provided does not exist or is by itself already a redirected URL, which cannot be redirected again by Dot TK. Please choose another URL.

i've enabled port forwarding for port 80, but i haven't configured iis

would iis not being configured prevent this from forwarding correctly?

help anyone???

Edited September 24, 2005 by smithxi

[Cartoonite]

so when the dns asks where to point i simply put...

http://myip  ?

or is it

http://myip/c:/inetpub/

???

also im getting this error when trying to redirect a free .tk domain to my ip when i use [ur]http://myip as the direction to point to the server

In order to send all your visitors to the right spot, we need to know the exact location where your current existing website or homepage resides.

Your current web address

It seems that the URL you provided does not exist or is by itself already a redirected URL, which cannot be redirected again by Dot TK. Please choose another URL.

This might sound silly, but your post doesn't really make this clear.

When entering your current web address for forwarding, are you entering "http://myip" in the input field, or are you inputting your actual IP address? If you have a static IP address, you want to put that in this field to have the domain redirected to your PC.

i've enabled port forwarding for port 80, but i haven't configured iis

would iis not being configured prevent this from forwarding correctly?

No. It will prevent your web page from being displayed once the domain is forwarding, though.

[smithxi]

i'm putting my actual IP in.

and the service is returning errors that it's already hosted, most likely because i didn't set up IIS yet, but will.

do i need to put the inetpub folder in that path of HTTP://MY STATIC IP/inetpub?

or do i simply point only to my pc.

i have port 80 forwarded.