How to host a website on windows 2003 server

Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Let's say our server has five IP addresses assigned to it from the range Before we create a new Human Resources web site, let's first examine the identify of the Default Web Site. This means any IP address not specifically assigned to another web site on the machine opens the Default Web Site instead.

A typical use for the Default Web Site is to edit it's default document to display general information like a company logo and how to contact the Support Desk. Let's use IP address This starts the Web Site Creation Wizard. Click Next and type a description for the site:. We've cleared the checkbox to deny anonymous access to the site because this is an internal intranet so only authenticated users should be able to access it public web sites generally allow anonymous access :.

Click Next and leave only Read access enabled since the Human Resources site will initially only be used to inform employees of company policies:. Now let's create another intranet site, this time for Help Desk, which will use IP address We'll create this one using a script instead of the GUI:.

The script we used here is Iisweb. The basic syntax of this script is easy to figure out from the previous screenshot, and a full syntax can be found here. Note that unlike the Web Site Creation Wizard used previously. So if you want to disable anonymous access you should do it by opening the properties sheet for the Help Desk site, selecting the Directory Security tab, and clicking the Edit button under Authentication and Access Control.

This opens the Authentication Methods box where you can clear the checkbox to disable Anonymous Access and leave Windows Integrated Authentication as the only authentication method available for clients on your network:.

Let's do this now. Click Next and type the alias for the virtual directory:. Click Next and specify permissions again we'll just leave Read enabled and finish the wizard.

Here's the result:. Let's do something similar using another IIS script named Iisvdir. Note the difference in the icons for the two virtual directories. That's because when the script creates a virtual directory it also creates an application starting point for that directory, while the wizard does not.

The first thing is to download VMware tools. To see a list of all release back to v At the time of this blog post the latest VMware Tools version is Under the version of tools you need, there are download options for the following operating systems:.

For Linux VMs it is generally it is best to use open-vm-tools which is built into most major distributions. See the open-vm-tools GitHub page for more details. Windows is a more manual process. If you browse the package site and browse down in to the latest Windows release you are shown the following note at the time of this blog post the version of VM Tools is You can see three files and two directories. Unfortunately in Chrome the full file path is cut off for the files. Only by hovering over the link can you see the full file name.