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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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3.4. Opening your first website for business

In the virtual machine environment you’ve built for the labs in this book, accessing and testing a website from any one of the VMs is pretty simple: open the browser and type the name of the server or its IP address.

When you want to open a site to the public, or to people outside your network, there’s more to the process. You need to check the firewalls and possibly open ports, get an outside public IP address, and configure DNS. Figure 3.14 shows the process of opening a website to the internet.

Figure 3.14. Opening a website to the outside world

Let’s give people access by opening holes in the firewall. ...

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