IIS (Internet Information Services) is the web server for Windows systems created by Microsoft. This web server is most popular for hosting .net framework based websites. We can also hosting other programming languages websites by adding their modules and handlers. This article will help you for creating a new website in IIS on Windows system.
1. Start IIS
Use windows navigation menu and open IIS on your system. Or you can directly open IIS by typing inetmgr in run window like below.
2. Add new Website
In left side base expand the tree and select Sites option. Right click on sites and select Add Website… option like following image.
This will open a popup to input new website details. Input the following details in pop-up box.
- Site name: Name of website to be appeared in IIS listing.
- Application pool: Select an application pool or keep is the default to create new application pool same name as sitename.
- Physical path: Enter the location of website pages on system.
- Binding:
- Type: Select protocol to configure (eg: http or https)
- IP address: Select ip address from drop list to set dedicated ip for site or keep is the default to use shared ip.
- Port: Enter port on which site will be accessible for users.
- Host name: Enter you actual domain name you want to use.
- Start Website immediately: keep this box checked to start site.
3. Adding Website Alias
If you want to add website aliases like “www.tecadmin.net”. Open IIS, Select your site and click on Bindings. You will get Site binding screen like below
Click on Add button it will open site binding box.
Enter hostname of your site alias like www.tecadmin.net, demo.tecadmin.net or stage.tecadmin.net and input other details and click Ok.
4. Verify Configuration
To verify configuration you can simply access site in web browser. If your domain is not pointed to this server do host file entry and check.
This article was really helpful…. I was struggling to learn iis, but this gave me a clear guidance….. Thank you
Hey, sir,
Just read your article it’s awesome. I was working on this and trying to do the same but was approaching it in a different way.
want to know if a web service can also be hosted in the same way?
or also want to know thatserver monitoring
is the best way to use this
Hey Rahul,
great article. I was working on this and trying to do the same but was approaching it in a wrong way.
want to know if a web service can also be hosted in the same way?