Chapter 6
Website Administration
What's in this chapter?
- Creating and modifying a website
- Configuring logging
- Configuring and managing host headers
- Administering applications
- Administering virtual directories
- Configuring compression
- Configuring MIME settings
- Basic tasks to hit the ground running
The daily challenges that you face as a web server administrator are wide and varied—from managing website content or ensuring that the company's website is available for the crucial product release to figuring out why the developer's code that's just been deployed keeps crashing the website. To manage such demands successfully and still be able to sleep at night depends on how well the server is administered and your ability to troubleshoot issues effectively and concisely. To develop these skills, you first need to accustom yourself with the core functionality of IIS and the best practices for managing it.
This chapter discusses the basic administration tasks required to manage an IIS 8.0 web server. In addition to providing an overview of websites, applications, and virtual directories, we will demonstrate the use of the latest tools for managing IIS 8.0, including IIS Manager, AppCmd.exe, and PowerShell.
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