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Microsoft IIS 10.0 Cookbook

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

Understanding wildcard hosts

In this recipe, we are going to understand wildcard hosts. We will create a few to demonstrate wildcard host websites and get an overview of it.

Let's understand wildcard DNS in detail.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe , you will need a running IIS 10.0 instance.

How to do it...

Open Internet Explorer on your Windows 10 PC or Windows Server 2016. I am using a Windows 10 PC.

Go to the address bar of any browser and type the URL http://learningpoint.co.in. You will be redirected to the default home page of learningpoint.co.in:

http://learningpoint.co.in/

The website's domain name is learningpoint.co.in, whose DNS record is present on a DNS registration server and points to a web hosting server such as IIS 10.0. Once you access the website's domain name, the DNS server will translate the name to an IP and forward the request to the web server (IIS 10.0 or similar). Then, you will see the website's home page displayed.

Now, open the http://demo.learningpoint.co...

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Authors (1)

Khan

Khan

Ashraf Khan works as the Head Of Network Operating System Unit, with a diverse background in production systems, Network Administration, and Solutions Architecture. He has the MCSE-Server, MCSE-Messaging, MCSE-Cloud, CCNA, ITIL & Prince2 certifications. He has more than 13 years of experience in sectors such as IT infrastructure and private and government sectors located in India and the UAE and remote support for USA and worldwide for physical and virtual server environment IT management, implementation, planning, disaster recovery, testing, and technical support.

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