RE: SBServer Internet Web Site (default)
- From: v-chayan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ("Charles Yang [MSFT]")
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 03:10:30 GMT
Hi Thomas,
Thanks for using SBS newsgroup.
Issue description:
It seems you want to publish your own website created via IIS to the
internet.
Analyzing and suggestions:
If this is a premium edition SBS 2003 server with ISA installed, you will
need to create new destination set for these web sites and then create web
publishing rules to publish them. Please refer to the following documents:
http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Publishing_Multiple_Web_Sites_using_Web_P
ublishing_Rules.html
300435 HOW TO: Securely Publish Multiple Web Sites by Using ISA Server in
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=300435
At my point of view, there could be no benefit to host public web sites by
using SBS 2003 server. Since the SBS 2003 server is an integrated business
solution for small business environment, it is better to use a separate
Windows server to host the company sites. SBS 2003 server built-in web site
is recommended to be only used for the private users.
Hosting public web sites will cause security, licensing and performance
issues. The security issue is the top cause. Port 80 is never out of the
top ten attacked ports. User account based authentication can prevent
unauthorized access; however, each connection will take one user CAL.
Considering the server performance, the public web site will increase the
server workload.
If you do want to host a public web site on the SBS 2003 server, it's your
best interest to use SBS 2003 Premium Edition with ISA server. I would like
to give you the steps for hosting a public web site on a SBS 2003 server
with ISA:
To deploy a customized public web site on the SBS 2003 box, you need to use
different URL to access the customized web site and the SBS 2003 build-in
web sites. I assume you have already registered an internet Domain name. I
would like to suggest you try the following steps to configure the SBS 2003
box.
For example, you have an FQDN: www.mydomain.com pointing to the static IP
address of your SBS server external NIC and you use the following URL to
access the particular web sites:
URL
Website function
http://www.mydomain.com
Customized public web site
https://www.mydomain.com:444/ Companyweb
(SSL)
https://www.mydomain.com/remote/ Remote Web
workplace (SSL)
https://www.mydomain.com/exchange/ Exchange
Outlook Web Access (SSL)
1. Use CEICW to automatically create the web publishing rules and
certificates for web sites.
Open "Server Management", navigate to "To Do List" and click "Connect to
the Internet". Re-run CEICW and when you configure the firewall options,
select "Enable Firewall" --> Select the services click "Next". In the web
services configuration window, select *ALL web sites* --> In the
certificate window, if you have already created a certificate, please
select "Do not change" option. Follow the wizard to finish the
configurations.
2. Create a folder to store the web page files.
Open Windows Explorer, create a folder (to store the customized web page
files) on the hard disk. Copy all customized web page files (which were
writen by some web author tools such as Front Page or Dream Weaver) to this
folder.
3. Create a new web site in IIS.
Open "Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager", navigate to <Server
Name>\"Web Sites". Right-click "Web Sites" folder, click "New"-->"Web
Site". The web site creation wizard will launch. Click "Next", input the
web site name such as "My Site"-->Select the *Internal IP address*, input
the port number "80" and input "www.mydomain.com'''' in the host header
box-->Click "Browse", find the folder that created in step2 --> Set the
permission (by-default Read and Run scripts)-->"Finish".
NOTE: Please ONLY select the Internal IP address as the identity for this
new web site. DO NOT input 443 port as the SSL connection for this site.
After the above steps, you can access all the web sites by using the listed
URL"s. However, you could not access the public web site from the internal
network. This is because we configure this web site to use a host header
(www.mydomain.com) to accept the web request. As a workaround, you can
modify the *hosts* file on the internal client computer (For windows
XP/2000 the path is %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\) and add an entry
for www.mydomain.com with the internal IP address of the SBS server.
After doing this, you can configure the SBS 2003 server to publish the web
site on the internal computer to the Internet by using Web publishing
rules.
As your convenience, I suggest you design a backup for your SBS 2003
server, it will make your server more reliable:
Backup and restore SBS 2003:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/d/8/bd8e1a40-d202-429a-8eb7-26300d6
2bcc9/BKU_BkupRstr.doc
If you have any concerns about publishing website via IIS, I suggest you
also post to IIS newsgroup. There you may get better sharing.
I hope the above information helps. If you have any questions, please feel
free to let me know. I am glad to be any further updates.
Have a nice day!
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