Internet Information Server Name : Yao Gu Date : 10-June-2000 COSC : 573.

Internet Information Server

Name: Yao Gu

Date: 10-June-2000

COSC: 573

Introduction

What is Internet Information Server?

IIS is server software that is used to public

information on an internal intranet or on the

word-wide Internet.

The key feature of IIS are:

• Performance.

• File Publication.

• Security.

• Network Management.

• Support for common Internet Standard.

Part I Install IIS

The IIS Integrated Services

IIS is make up of three main Service protocols

• Hypertext Transfer Protocols(HTTP)

• File Transfer Protocol(FTP)

• Gopher service

Installing IIS

In order to install IIS, you should first meet the

following requirements:

• IIS requires NT Server 4.0 using TCP/IP.

• If you want Internet connectivity, you need

some form of connection to the Internet

• You need to be logged on with Administrator

rights.

(for example, a leased line from an Internet service provide

(ISP). Your ISP will need provide you with an IP address,

subnet mask, and a default gateway IP address)

Second hardware requirements:

Minimum Recommended

______________________________________CPU 486/50MHZ(min) Pentium 90MHZ

RAM 16MB 32-64MB

Free disk 50M 200MB

space

Next you will begin installing IIS .

After that your server can be configured to serve

HTTP, FTP, and Gopher requests.

Part II Configuration of IIS

Configure IIS through the Internet Service Manager, The Internet Service Manager

can be used to start, stop, and pause the three

services(WWW, FTP, Gopher) that make up

IIS.

You can also configure the properties of the:

• WWW service

• FTP service

• Gopher service

WWW Service

• Service Properties :

1. TCP Port (default www uses port 80);

2. Connection Timeout (default value

is 900 seconds).

3. Maximum Connection (default value

is 100,000 numbers).

4. Anonymous logon (by default the

account will be IUSR_computer name).

5. Password Authentication.

• Directories Properties

1. The directories that the WWW service will use

2. The alias or path for virtual directories

3. The IP address for virtual directories

4. Any errors associated with the published

directories

• Logging Properties

1. Log to File

2. Log to SQL(Structure Query Language)

/ODBC(Open Data Base Connectivity)

database

• Advanced Properties

1. Granted Access

2. Denied Access

FTP service

• Service

• Messages

• Directories

• Logging

• Advanced

Service Properties

1. TCP port (default FTP server uses port 21)

2. Timeout (default is 900 seconds)

3. Maximum Connection ( default is 1000)

4. Allow Anonymous Connections

5.Comment

6. Current Sessions (currently connected

FTP users.

Message properties

1. A welcome message that users see when

they access your FTP site

2. An exit message that users see when the

exit your FTP site.

3. A maximum connections message users

see if the maximum connection have

been exceeded.

Directories properties

1. The FTP directories that will be published.

These can be located on the FTP server or

they can be virtual directories.

2. The directory listing style you will use:

UNIX or MS-DOS

Logging Properties and Advanced Properties

as same as WWW service.