IIS 7 Creating New Website - iis-7

I'm trying to learn IIS and I'm creating a basic website locally on my computer. Here's what I did...
Open IIS 7 Manager
Right Click "Sites"
Click "Add Website"
Set "Site Name"
Set "Physical Path" with a file called "default.htm" (c:\inetput\site1)
Set "Host name:" to site1.com
Click OK
When I try to go to my new site1.com (not www, I've yet to set that binding) I keep getting a message saying that the server "is taking too long to respond".
What am I doing wrong?
P.S. - I'm using Windows 8.

site1.com probably isn't resolving since there's no DNS entry for it. You'll need to add an entry in your hosts file for site1.com or try accessing it directly by the IP address you assigned.

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Accessing a deployed website on IIS on a different machine on the network

I just deployed a website on IIS. After clicking on the browse button. The following url opened up
http://localhost:8080/
On IIS Manager this is what it looks like
Sites
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|_Kites
|_aspnet_client
|_bin
|_...
My question is how do I access this website on a different computer now that it has been deployed on IIS
I tried this url.
http://10.xxx.xx.51:8080/
However when I try this url I get the error site cannot be reached.
Any suggestions on why this might be happening ?
This is what my bindings look like
Have you set Edit binding option in IIS server ? if not then do this.
You have to go to Edit binding option in IIS server and Add Site binding. their you have to choose your ip address and port as well.
Now you have to go to Windows Administrative tools and go to Windows firewall and advanced options then this window opens
Now go to Inbound Rules on the left corner then this window opens
Now click on New rule now this window opens
Now choose port and click next then this window opens
Now specify the same port as you have set on edit binding in IIS and click next then
Now, no need to change and option on this page and next page also just click next and then
Now enter the name of the rule and description and click finish...Its done.
You can access it on different computer...
Hope, this will help you.
If you find it helpful please mark my answer....Thanks

can't get my web site, on IIS, to work with URL beginning with www

I added my vb.net web app to IIS 8 on my Azure Windows 2012 server R2 VM.
Then, I did IIS > right-click Sites > Add Web Site
and set "Site name" to my_site.org
and set Physical path to project directory for my web site
and set "Host name" also to my_site.org.
Works great. From Internet, I browse to http://my_site.org and it runs OK.
Now I want people to also browse to www.my_site.org
but when I Add Web Site, just like above, but for www.my_site.org
it adds ok, but when I select www.my_site.org and click IIS Browse www.my_site.org browser pops up but reads "webpage cannot be found"
Nor can I browse it from Internet.
Because what is WWW? essentially that is a subdomain that you would need WWW to exist for it to load WWW.
Best option may be to set up domain forwarding to WWW, maybe a CNAME in your domain options?
From Azure documentation, "You must also provide the domain or subdomain alias for the CNAME, such as www if you want to create an alias for www.customdomain.com. If you want to create an alias for the root domain, it may be listed as the '#' symbol in your registrar's DNS tools."
More at:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-custom-domain-name/
Hope this helps! :)
Shahed

configuring asp.net website on iis on windows 7

I have website and I configured it on IIS. I did not supply any ip and let the default be stayed "All unassigned".
When I browse the site from IIS manager it's give error in browser that "The resource cannot be found" and the url is 'loclhost/MAIN.aspx"
My application name is rentalone but the url does not include the app name. It just gives the page name and localhost.
What am I doing wrong.
Please help
thanks
Go into IIS, expand the tree in the left side, you should see a Default Web Site eventually in the tree. Right click that and select Add Application, it will ask you for a Name and location, location is there you application files are and Name whatever you like. When that is done, you can go to http://localhost/MyAppName/main.aspx
MyAppName being the name you provided it

deploy asp.net project on another computer

Just to begin I am a beginner in ASP, and havign some difficulty in deploying my first application.
I made a asp.net project in VS2008, and I ws trying to deploy it on another machine and following are the steps that I did:
right clicked on website and published set loaction to c:\inetpub\wwwroot and pasted my app to this folder.
Then I went to control Panel- admin tool- IIS and there it showed the website which I copied then went to its properties added documents, set ASP>NET version, it was blank by default. Then edited the configuration and under authentication changed its mode to none.
And then when I cick on the app in IIS and browse it showed the desired output, but I need to know how to open the same app in browser.
Thanks
If I've understood this correctly - it does depend on how the website has been set up in IIS. At it's most simple it would be
As the default website
http://[external IP of webserver]/default.aspx
As a virtual under the website
http://[external IP of webserver]/[virtualName]/default.aspx
Assuming there is a file called default.aspx (insert your own)
if default.aspx is specified as a default document for the site
http://[external IP of webserver]
http://[external IP of webserver]/[virtualName]
if you are using binding to a specific IP and or port (look in IIS, left handside at the binding link - see image below)
http://hostname: optionalpost
Apologies if I have misunderstood
EDIT
To check whether the site is active at all and to get a better idea of what the external URL is then on the left hand side of IIS will be browse to website. Click this to check whether the site comes up at all.
If it does then the URL should be obvious. It could be one with a host header i.e. looks like a normal URL i.e.
http://mytestsite.com
If it is in this format then you may not be able to browse externally if you can't resolve this hostheader to the IP of the box. To get around this then edit you host file and add a mapping from the url to the external IP of the box.
Host header is at following in windows 7 (or windows generally i think)
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
Please back this file up before editing it

How to map a domain to another domain's subfolder?

I have a very fast web server (IIS6, ASP.NET) that I want to use for several sites. Now, I already have a domain that maps directly to the IP address of the server, but how can I get another domain to map to a subfolder (i.e., a separate ASP.NET application) on that same computer? Is it theoretically possible? (note: only port 80 is open, I cannot open other ones.)
Accepted answer: shown below. I actually followed the tutorial and got it working. Hooray! Thanks, everyone! :)
Sure, you could do it with domain host headers. Just create a new web site and chose a different host header (e.g. www.example.com) and let it point to the desired folder. You can create hundreds of web sites on a single server, if you like.
Here is a tutorial how to do this.
Open IIS Manager
On the left side, expand your computer name, then click "Web Sites", right click in the right side, put your mouse over "New" and select "Web Site..."
Click Next in the dialog, then put in a description of the new web site you are creating (can be anything)
Click Next again and go to the last text box and put in what you want the new Host Header to be
Now put in the path to your new site and make sure you keep "Allow anonymous access" checked
Check "Run scripts" (for ASP.NET execution) if it's not already checked.
Click Finish on the next dialog and you're done!
Just create a new site in your "IIS Manager" application - the wizard will ask for the DNS hostname of the new site.
To see (or change) that value later, on the "Web Site" tab of the properties pages for that site, use the "Advanced..." options to chose which values for the HTTP/1.1 "Host:" header are used to get to that particular site.
Does it have to be a subfolder? You can setup a different site in iis and use host headers to direct each domain to the relevant site, all using one ip.
You can't do this if you need ssl though; you really need multiple ips for that.
If it has to be a subdir you can create another site as above and set it to redirect to somewhere else.

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