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Internet Information Services (IIS)

IIS is a service which is used to host the

information over the internet.

It provides integrated, reliable, scalable and

manageable Web server capabilities over an intranet,
internet & Extranet

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Versions of IIS

IIS 2.0 in WinNT 4.0 Operating System

IIS 4.0 in WinNT 4.0 (With SP3)

IIS 5.0 in 2000 Operating System

IIS 6.0 in 2003 Operating System

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Web Servers In Other Operating Systems

IIS is also present in

2000 Professional, XP Professional [HTTP & FTP]

Millennium Edition [HTTP & FTP]

In 98 operating system Personal Web Manager is

present serving as Web Server

The World Famous Web Server is APACHE Server which

is working on Linux Platform

Windows Server 2003 supports Web Edition to

configure Web Server using IIS. This is released to
compete with APACHE server.

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New Features Of IIS 6.0

Supports IPv6

Backup & Restoring Web Content is easy

Isolation of Users

More Secure Environment

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IIS 6.0 Services

World Wide Web (WWW) publishing service (HTTP)

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) service

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service

Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) service

IIS Admin service

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HTTP

World Wide Web (WWW) publishing service

Http service is used to publish data to World Wide Web

quickly & easily.

This protocol is easily configurable and reliable and it

supports security and encryption to protect sensitive
data

Default Port No is 80

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FTP

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) service

It is a protocol used to download and upload the files

over the internet.

Default Port No is 21

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Mail services

IIS also supports E-mail services like

NNTP

SMTP

POP3

IMAP4

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Requirements to Host WEB SERVER

Static IP Address (Public IP if published over Internet)

Domain name (Registered Domain name if Published

over Internet)

Name Resolution Service Like DNS

Home Directory

Required for each WWW or FTP site

Central location of published pages

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Properties of Web Sites

WEB SITE:

It gives general information of the website

i.e., website description, port no, IP Address, log files.

PERFORMANCE:

It gives the bandwidth and the no. of website

connections that can be accepted

ISAPI FILTERS:

ISAPI filters are programs that responds to events that

occur on the server during the processing of an HTTP
request.

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Properties of Web Sites

HOME DIRECTORY:

It gives the location where the web content is stored

and allows the redirection of the web site

DOCUMENTS:

It is the location to add content and also it required to

enable footer.

DIRECTORY SECURITY:

It provides the security based on authentication, Client

IP s and secure communications

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Properties of Web Sites

HTTP HEADERS:

It gives the information of content expiration, content

ratings and MIME types.

CUSTOM ERRORS:

To customized the error messages custom errors are

used.

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Virtual Directory

Virtual Directories are sub directories of the root of

the site.

By using Virtual directories we can create alias or

pointer to a directory somewhere else in the system
or another system on the network.

IIS defines Virtual Directory as pointing to another

directory on same server

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Benefits of Virtual Directory

They simplify the web site structure from the users

point of view.

They permit great flexibility in organizing content

They can provide another layer of security because

the users can t tell where the content is actually
stored.

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