IIS Web service overview page

IIS Web Server is a part of the Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) that manages Web services.

On this page you can view the following information:

URLs

• Web Server URL:The URL of your Web site.

• Site Preview URL: The alternate URL to view your Web site if the registration of the domain name is in process.

• Shared SSL URL: The alternate URL to view your Web site, if it is using the SSL certificate of another site.

Feature Options

• Microsoft .NET Applications: This enables support for .NET applications on the Web site.

• Enable Default SSL certificate (For IP-based Sites Only): This enables use of the default SSL certificate. Available only to IP-based sites; name-based sites cannot use the default SSL certificate.

• SSL Secure Web Server Access:This enables management of SSL certificates and enables HTTPS connection to the Web site.

• Server Side Includes: This enables support for SSI scripts with .shtm, .shtml and .stm extensions.

• Web Site Logging: This enables IIS Web site logging.

• Web Site Name Aliasing (Domain Alias): This enables management of domain aliases.

• Number of Subdomains: This displays the maximum number of subdomains that can be created.

Feature Configurations

• Selected IIS Log File Format: File formats record details about user activity and creates logs in your choice of format. The List of available file formats are:

• Microsoft IIS Log File Format: A fixed (non-customizable) ASCII format that records more items of information than the NCSA Common format.

• NCSA Common Log File Format: A fixed (non-customizable) ASCII format, available for Web sites but not for FTP sites.

• W3C Extended Log File Format: A customizable ASCII format with a variety of different fields.

• Maximum Number of Connections Allowed: The maximum number of simultaneous connections allowed to the IIS server.

• Expected Number of Hits Per Day: The number of times the site is accessed per day.

• Web Server Connection Timeout: The length of time before the server disconnects an idle client browser session.

• Enable Reverse DNS Lookup: This performs reverse DNS lookup to resolve the name of the client machine that will be logged in the log files.

• Allow Setting of Default Document Name(s): This permits the user to specify the default document. The default document is the one that gets loaded when the client connects to the Web site.

• Note: If this option is not selected, an error page will be displayed when the user tries to connect to the Web site. The Web server will not know which document is been requested for, as a result the user will not be able to browse the site. However, if ‘directory browsing’ feature is enabled then the user will be presented with a page listing with the documents and directories present on the home directory of the site.

• Default Document Name(s): The IIS Web server will look for a default document in the same order that you specify. This is a comma separated list of document names

• Allow Setting of Default Footer: This permits the user to change the default footer option.

• Default Footer: This displays the location and the name of the footer file. The contents of this file appear at the bottom of every Web page of this site.

Quality of Service / Service Level Agreement

• Maximum Bandwidth Usage Allowed: The maximum bandwidth that IIS is allowed to consume to serve Web requests for the Web site.

Web Site Visitor Permissions

• Allow Site Browsing (Read): If selected, the site visitor has read access and can browse the Web site.

• Allow Content Modification (Write): If selected, the site visitor has write access and can modify the contents of the Web site using HTTP PUT protocol.

• Allow Directory Browsing: If selected, the site visitor is allowed to see a hypertext listing of the files and sub-directories in this virtual directory.

Application Settings

• File Execute Permissions: This displays the appropriate level of script execution

• Disallow Scripts and Executables: Denotes that running of scripts, such as ASP applications, or executables is disabled on the server .

• Allow Scripts only: Denotes that running only scripts, such as ASP applications, is permitted on the server.

• Allow Scripts and Executables (CGI): Denotes that running both scripts, such as ASP applications, and executables is permitted on the server.

• Application Pool type: Denotes the type of application pool used for the site. An application pool is a configuration that links one or more applications to a set of one or more worker processes. Because applications in an application pool are separated from other applications by worker process boundaries, an application in one application pool is not affected by problems caused by applications in other application pools.

• Shared - The applications are running in the same process as Web services. So if the application fails / crashes due to some internal bugs, it will crash the Web server.

• Dedicated - The applications are running as an isolated pooled process in which other applications are also run.

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