3. Introduction Internet Information Services ( IIS ) - formerly called Internet Information Server - is a set of Internet-based services for servers created by Microsoft for use with Microsoft Windows . It is the world's second most popular web server in terms of overall websites behind the industry leader Apache HTTP Server
33. Placement of Configuration Configuration For Place Place In Entire server applicationHost.config A specific site web.config in the site’s physical root directory A specific application web.config in the application’s physical root directory A specific virtual directory web.config in the virtual directory’s physical root A specific URL If the URL corresponds to a physical directory, in web.config in that directory; otherwise, in any existing parent web.config file with a location tag for the specific URL
42. Create a new Web site - To create a new Web site in Apache, you must set up a virtual host and configure the individual settings for the host. If you are using IIS, you can create a new Web site by translating the following terms to the IIS equivalents: