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Professional Microsoft IIS 8
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Professional Microsoft IIS 8

by Kenneth Schaefer, Jeff Cochran, Scott Forsyth, Dennis Glendenning, Benjamin Perkins
November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
984 pages
27h 56m
English
Wrox
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Administering Applications

In this section, we'll discuss adding and removing applications with IIS Manager and via the command line.

Adding Applications Using IIS Manager

To add an application with IIS Manager, follow these steps:

1. Select the website to create the application for and right-click “Add Application,” or select “View Applications” from the Actions pane (see Figure 6.9).
2. Enter the alias for the application; this will be the path off the website root. Select the application pool for the application to reside in.
3. Note that if the application is not required to be in the same application pool as the parent website, it should be placed into a separate application pool to ensure that any application failures do not affect the site.
4. Enter the physical path of the application, and then select OK.
5. Refresh the Web Sites list, and alias will be listed under the site. By selecting the alias, full configuration of the application as a separate application is now possible; thus, everything that can be configured on the parent site can be configured in the application.
6. Select Advanced Settings from the Actions pane. This allows further configuration of the application, with the option to
  • Set path credentials (that is, select a particular user for the application to run under).
  • Set the credential logon type (Interactive/Batch/Network/Clear Text). ...
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