Setting Up domains with IIS 4.0

It's easy to setup new domains on your NT server.  First login to your server with PCanywhere using your browser.  Next using windows explorer open the directory called webserver.  In there you  will see a folder called "newserver"  Right click and copy the folder.  Next paste the folder right in the same /webserver directory. 

Now you have a folder called "copy of newserver".   Right click this folder and select rename.  Name the folder something that will tell you what domain it belongs to when you look at it later. For example for the domain oursite.com we would name the folder oursite.

Next in the NT user manager we need to create a login account for this new domain. Click the user manager icon on your tool bar to open the user manager.   If you are not sure of the icon, just move your mouse pointer over each icon and pause.  A message will open telling you what the icon is.  Add the user information including a password for this user.

Next open the Microsoft management console and click Action then new website.  See below.

Enter the information for your web site.  It will ask a description for the site and for a location of the document directory. Note that this is the document directory so it would be: c:\webserver\foldername\htdocs.   Accept the defaults and you will return to the console window.

Now rightclick you new site an select properties. If you are hosting this account on a shred IP then select the same IP as your main server account.  Then click the advanced tab.  If this account will have it's own IP then skip this step.

Open the advanced tab and add this new site to the properties as shown below. Enter the information then click ok.

Now again in properties you will need to set your logging options.  Most customers like detail about their web site. So select W3C extended Log File Format. Then click the properties button.  Set the path to c:\webserver\foldername\logs\.

Near the top of the windows click the Extended Properties tab.  We use the settings shown below to get detail in the log.

Click ok to close the windows and return to the console. Right click your new website and select start to start the web. 

You will need to add a virtual directory to your sites.  These are directories such as /stats.  You need to do this so when the person type http://www.sitename.com/stat/ , it takes them to the right directory. To do this, in the console highlight the web site you are working with. Right click it and select new as shown below.

Now type in a name for the directory as shown below.

Next, tell it the real path to this directory.  See below.

Complete the above operation and that's all there is to it.

To add FrontPage extensions open your frontpage administrator.  Click install.   A box will open and you need to select IIS as the type of web server. A window will then open that lists all the domains on your server.  Select the domain that you want from the list. 

At one point during the proscess a windows will open asking for the user name for the web.  It defaults to administrator.  Change this to the user name that you entered for this domain.