Understanding the IIS Fundamentals
As I mentioned, IIS is the application server built into the Windows operating system. In this section, I'll provide some background on how IIS operates so that you have some context for deployment.
Understanding Web Sites
IIS can host multiple independent web sites simultaneously. For each web site, you must specify a root path (a folder either on the server's file system or on a network share), and then IIS will serve whatever static or dynamic content it finds in that folder.
To direct a particular incoming HTTP request to a particular web site, IIS allows you to configure bindings. Each binding maps all requests for a particular combination of IP address, TCP port number, and HTTP hostname to a particular ...
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