Application Hosting in IIS Server
This article is for those who are trying to learn about IIS. The article gives a complete coverage of IIS, hosting sites on IIS, application pool creation, etc.
Introduction
IIS or Internet Information Server is used to host web applications and websites. IIS can be installed in any windows server which is available in Google Cloud Platform(GCP).
Some of the essential features of IIS are as follows:-
Enable administrators to reliably and effectively manage Web infrastructures.
Distributed file-based configuration system that enables IIS settings to be stored in web.config files along with the ASP.NET settings.
Cost-effective, more scalable Web server platform for delivering reliable Web hosting.
A modular, extensible core Web server.
A unified, distributed file-based configuration system.
Integrated health monitoring and diagnostics.
A set of new administration tools with delegation support.
Steps
Create an RDP instance and install IIS Server in it
Create an HTML file and copy it to the VM
Save the HTML file in C:\inetpub\wwwroot
Go to Server Manager, select Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager from Tools
Expand the Instance name as shown below. Then expand the Sites, right click on Default Web Site and then click on Add Application as shown below
Provide the Alias and Physical path where the file is stored as shown below and then click on OK
Right-click on your Website, click on Manage Application and then Browse
