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You're reading from Microsoft IIS 10.0 Cookbook Task-oriented recipes to manage your web server with ease

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787126671

Length 410 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

IIS

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Khan

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Integrating IIS 10.0 with Windows Server 2016 FREE CHAPTER

2. Creating an Application Pool in IIS 10.0

3. Hosting Multiple Websites on IIS 10.0

4. Constructing Virtual Directories in IIS 10.0

5. Installing HTTP/2 on IIS 10.0

6. Getting Your Wildcard Host Up and Running

7. Deploying IIS 10.0 on Nano Server

8. Configuring IIS Administration with PowerShell Cmdlets

9. Enabling ASP.NET Core with IIS on Nano Server

10. Installing and Configuring SSL Websites

11. Extending IIS 10.0 to FTP

12. Securing Your Websites on IIS 10.0

13. Managing and Troubleshooting IIS 10.0

Testing SSL websites

In this recipe, we are going to open Internet Explorer on WIN2016IIS and open mysite.com. We will also verify the SSL certificate we created and configured on mysite.com.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running IIS 10.0 server, SSL-configured website mysite.com, and an administrator account to make changes in IIS 10.0.

How to do it...

Go to WIN2016IIS and log in to the IIS 10.0 server WIN2016IIS. Open the server manager and go to the Tools menu.
Open IIS Manager and expand WIN2016IIS. You will get the Application Pools and Sites. Expand Sites. You will the website mysite.com listed.
Right-click on mysite.com and click on Explorer. You will get the mysite.com website's physical directory, as shown here:

We've pasted the iisstart.htm and iisstart.png files inside the mysite physical directory. Now you have to make a host entry for mysite.com so that we can access it by name.
Go to the WIN2016IIS server's C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc location. You...