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IIS - Microsoft Internet Information Server
Issue:
How to run multiple web sites on IIS on XP PRO
How to host multiple web sites on XP PRO
Description:
In keeping with the Microsoft crede (say it with me, Bleed the customer's bank account dry...), Windows 2000 Pro & XP Pro come with a "Single Site Version" of IIS. What this means is that you can only run/host one website at a time. If you go into the IIS Snap-In/MMC, and do a righ-click on the
"Web Sites" folder, you will NOT get the "Add New Web Site" option.
Solution:
While you can search the Net for days, find a hundred hacks that will show you how to create multiple sites, then teach you how to manually stop and start one site at a time, the easiest answer is:
Get the FREE UTILITY:
XP Pro IIS Admin from JetStat.com
This little jewel will give you a pop-up utility that will allow you easily create multiple web sites on your WIN2K or XP Pro system and then switch/choose between them at will. (Sorry, still can only have one active at a time.)
Issue:
When loading an HTML page from IIS (Microsoft Internet Information Server), the page seems to "hang", or never load.
Solution:
Check the "link rel" tags within the source code of the page.
If there is a reference to a .css file (style sheet), and the actual .css file (style sheet) is EMPTY, IE seems to have a problem.
This can be exasperated if there are multiple links/references to multiple .css files that are empty or missing.