Setting Up a Web Server

This article describes how to set up a WWW server for anonymous access in a Windows Server 2003 environment.

Installing Internet Information Services

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is a Web service that integrates with Windows Server 2003.

To install IIS, add optional components, or remove optional components, follow these steps: xx:

Click Start, point to Control Panel, and then click “ Add or Remove Programs ”.

“Add or Remove Programs> The tool will launch.

Click Add/Remove Windows Components.

Display “Windows Components Wizard”.

In the list of Windows components, click the web application server.

Click Details and then click Internet Information Services (IIS).

Click Details to see a list of IIS optional components.

Select the optional components you want to install. By default, the following components are selected:

Public Files

FrontPage 2002 Server Extentions

Internet Information Services snap-in

Internet Information Services Manager

NNTP Service

SMTP Service

World Wide Web Service

Click on "World Wide Web Service", and then click Details to view IIS Select a list of subcomponents (such as Active Server Pages components and "Remote Management (HTML) Tools”). Select the optional subcomponents you want to install. By default, the following components are selected:

World Wide Web Services

Click OK until you return to the "Windows Components Wizard".

Click Next and then complete the "Windows Components Wizard".

Configuring anonymous authentication

To configure anonymous authentication, follow these steps: xx:
Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services ( IIS).

Expand “* server name> (where server name is the name of the server), right-click the Web site, and then click Properties.

In the Web Site Properties dialog box, click the Directory Security tab.

Under "Authentication and Access Control", click Edit.

Click the “Enable anonymous access” checkbox to select it.

Note: User accounts in the "username" box are only used for anonymous access through the Windows guest account.

By default, the server creates and uses the account IUSR_computername. Anonymous user account passwords are only used in Windows; anonymous users do not log in with a username and password.

Under “Authorized Access>, click the “Integrated Windows Authentication” checkbox to select it.

Click OK twice.

Basic Web Site Configuration

Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS).

Expand “Server Name> (where the server name is the name of the server), and then expand the Web site.

Right-click the default Web site and click Properties.

Click the Web Sites tab. If you have assigned more than one IP address to your computer, in the IP Address box, click the IP address that you want to assign to this Web site.

Click the Performance tab. Use the Web Site Properties - Performance dialog to set properties that affect memory, bandwidth usage, and the number of web connections.

By configuring network bandwidth on a particular site, you have more control over traffic to that site. For example, by limiting bandwidth on low-priority Web sites, you can relax the limit on traffic to his site. Similarly, when you specify the number of connections to a Web site, you can free resources for other sites. Settings are site-specific and should be adjusted based on network traffic and usage changes.

Click the "Restrict bandwidth available for this website" checkbox to select it to configure IIS to adjust the network bandwidth to the selected maximum amount of bandwidth in kilobytes per second ( KB/S) is the unit.

Click the Web Service Connections checkbox to select it to select a specific number or an unlimited number of web service connections. Restricting connections allows computer resources to be used by other processes.

Note: Each client browsing a Web site typically uses approximately three connections.

Click the Home Directory tab.

If you want to use web content stored on your local computer, click “directory on this computer” then type the path you want in the Local path box. For example, the default path is C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot.

Note: For added security, do not create a web content folder in the root directory.

If you want to use web content stored on another computer, click "shared location on another computer" and type the desired location in the displayed network directory box.

If you want to use web content stored in another web address, click “redirect to URL” and type the desired location in the “redirect to ” box. Under “Customers will send to ”, click the appropriate checkbox to select it.