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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

A wildcard host or subdomain is a domain that is a part of a top-level domain under the DNS hierarchy. It is used as an easy way to create many unique web addresses for specific purposes.

For example, it could make it easier for users to remember and navigate to the demo of a product's site by placing it at the address demo.v2mysite.com. In this case, the subdomain is demo.v2mysite.com, whereas the main domain is mysite.com.

A wildcard host or subdomain is also known as a child domain. We have a parent domain, v2mysite.com, and I'm about to show you how to create a subdomain demo prefixed with the main domain, like demo.v2mysite.com. We can have different names and unlimited wildcard hosts for our parent domain. A wildcard host or subdomain website host doesn't require any separate payment or registration. The purpose of a subdomain is to have a separate...