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Microsoft IIS 10.0 Cookbook

By : Ashraf Khan
5 (1)
Book Image

Microsoft IIS 10.0 Cookbook

5 (1)
By: Ashraf Khan

Overview of this book

This book will start with customizing your IIS 10 to various platforms/OS and tune it according to your business requirements. Moving on, we will focus on the functionalities of core fundamentals and perform practical scenarios in order to maximize the use of a reliable web server. Going further we will be covering topics like IIS 10 architecture, IIS modules,hosting web server platforms, virtual directories along with web site deployment, ports, enhanced security. We will also cover new features of IIS 10 like integration with Windows Server 2016 and Nano Server, HTTP/2, PowerShell 5 cmdlets etc . Towards the end, we will cover troubleshooting & diagnostic techniques of IIS 10. By the end of this book you will be well versed with maximizing the reliability of your webserver and will have immense knowledge in using IIS 10 effectively
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Introduction

Using multiple web hosts in Microsoft IIS 10 Server, you can host one or more websites on the same IIS 10 server. The website can be hosted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) over Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTPS) using the default port, 80. In general, all websites get access on default port 80 using either HTTP or HTTPS. If you run your website encrypted, the protocol protocol is HTTPS secure port.

A website is needed to access a network, either through LAN, which can be called intranet, or Wide Area Network (WAN), which can be called internet.

You need a domain name, IP address, and port to run your website or web application.

We have already performed the installation and created application pools. Now let's start multiple web hosts on the same IIS 10 server and access the websites using their host names (domain names).

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