Newbie Question

[stevo1565]

Hi All

 

I've never had anything to do with IIS before and am looking for a little advice.

 

I would like to set this up but am wondering does this need to be installed onto the schools webspace in order to work for example to get http://www.schoolname.co.uk/hap or does IIS host this and if so how does it communicate with the outside world ?

 

Any help with this would be great

 

Thanks

Edited January 29, 2016 by stevo1565

[twin--turbo]

ISS? Do you mean IIS

[stevo1565]

Ah yes sorry IIS

[Norphy]

I don't know, the thought of setting up the International Space Station for a web app is quite entertaining:)

[stevo1565]

;-) trying to set it up and understand how it works, is just the same as the ISS I would imagine

[dapaulio]

IIS is a stand alone web service that is installed through server roles/features and allows you to upload a website/intranet and allow people to connect to it. unlike the Xampp, wamp which are package web services includes PHP, SQL express and other modules, IIS doesnt and these modules would need to be installed separately as per the specification of the website design.

 

the basics if you install IIS on a server and start the service then type http://servername you should see the IIS homepage (you may need to specify the server in your proxy exeptions if you have one).

 

on the server you will notice c:\inetpub\wwwroot appear which is where you can upload your website then you will notice the IIS homepage will change to your own webpage. to go the next step you could design your self a very basic index.html page and upload it to c:\inetpub\wwwroot on the server.

 

it gets a little more complicated when you come to publishing the website externally or specifying a https:// certificate which involves bindings but as a start that all there is to it.

 

If you want to play with web services install XAMPP or wamp on you computer which creates c:\wamp\ and create and upload an index.html file and have a play with it.

 

Just note IIS is just a web service not a package service like wamp

[DPenfold]

If it setting up SSL, nick helped me out;

 

HAP+ needs to be run over HTTPS

 

You can follow these instructions on HTTPS bindings How to Set Up SSL on IIS 7 : The Official Microsoft IIS Site

 

However this was not a trusted SSL but it allowed me to get the ball moving (Set up, customize etc.), for a trusted server certificate I had to go through Link2ICT, created a request and email it across to them.

 

Issue I had then was putting it back in but I just managed to get it working xD.

 

I'm newbie to hap, IIS, windows server (I'm more hardware lol) but I'll try keep eye out and help best I can from what I've put together

 

Hope Nick's link is useful, best of luck.

[mavhc]

I used https://github.com/Lone-Coder/letsencrypt-win-simple to get ssl certs automatically

[twin--turbo]

ISS is a correct microsoft product and was the forerunner to TMG.

 

TT

[pantscat]

ISS is a correct microsoft product and was the forerunner to TMG.

 

TT

 

ISA, surely?

[twin--turbo]

ISA, surely?

 

Ah yeah that's the proper acronym... I think I have a disk for it in my software wallet in the dining room..

 

TT