How to do it...

Follow these steps to start your first website on this new IIS web server:

  1. Open Server Manager and drop down the Tools menu. Then click on Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
  2. In the left-hand window pane, expand the name of your server and click on the Sites folder.
  3. Right-click on Default Web Site and navigate to Manage Website | Stop. This will stop that automatically created website from running and getting in the way of the new website that we are about to create:
  1. Before we create our new website, we will need to create an HTML webpage file that will run when users browse to the new site. Let's leave IIS Manager ...

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