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Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches
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Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches

by Jason Helmick
December 2013
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
372 pages
11h 42m
English
Manning Publications
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2.1. Locating and protecting the physical web server

Location, location, location. The first rule of buying a home or starting a new business applies to your web servers as well. You should have your virtual environment ready to go for the labs in this book, but at some point you’re going to need to put a real web server into production.

The location of the web server in your infrastructure will impact how people from inside and outside your network access your websites. This will affect configuration settings on firewalls, the Network Address Translation (NAT) device, and DNS. The network team will make many of these decisions for you, but you’ll need to investigate your infrastructure so you can determine whether it meets the best security ...

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