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Part III: Home Security

5. Click the Services tab.

Notice that there’s a service called Web Server

(HTTP). If you were setting up a web server on the

default TCP port 80, you could just select that and

click OK. We’re using a custom port, though.

6. Click Add. The Service Settings dialog appears.

7. Type a friendly name for the web server in the

“Description of service” field. In the “Name or

IP address” field, type the manually configured

IP address your computer uses to connect to the

Internet. Select the TCP radio button. In the External

Port and Internet Port fields, type the custom TCP

port number you configured IIS with. Figure 12-15

shows a sample configuration. Finally, click OK.

8. Click OK twice more to finalize the settings.

Figure 12-15. You need to open a port in

your firewall for your web server.

There’s a lot more you can do to secure IIS. For more complete information, read

the documentation available at http://www.microsoft.com/.

If everything worked properly, you should now be able to enter the URL

http://localhost:TCP_Port/ in your browser and see a web page served directly

from your computer. Of course, there’s no useful content on the web site

yet, but we’ll take care of that in other projects. You’re using a custom port

number (not TCP port 80), so you need to specify the port number as part

of the URL. Speci ...