Creating IIS sites for all domain users using home directories

[thedarxide]

Hi,

 

We have several thousand domain users, whose home directories are all stored on a central file share. I'd like to create webspace for them using IIS, quickly and easily, using a standard folder structure.

 

e.g. d:\users\username\ftpFiles becomes http://servername/username

 

Or something similar. Ease and quickness of implementation is better than tidyness. Any suggestions apprecaited. I haven't even *looked* at IIS since 2002, so this might be trivially easy, so excuse me not reading the manual first

[danrhodes]

Open up IIS and drill down to the "Default Website" folder.

 

Right click and select properties

 

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On the Home Directory tab enter the root location of the users home directories, for example d:\users\%USERNAME%

 

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Then if you navigate to http://fileserver1/%USERNAME% you will be presented with a directory view of your home folder.

 

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[thedarxide]

That will work once, but not for multiples. I need to create webspace for all our students, quickly. Unless I've missed something.

 

I may just use Apache with LDAP authentication instead: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/public_html.html

Edited March 26, 2010 by thedarxide

[danrhodes]

Why wouldn't it work for multiples? Should do I'd say.

 

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[gibbo_ap]

Why wouldn't it work for multiples? Should do I'd say.

 

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it would be a manual job tho wouldnt it? your cant just set it to create the webspace automatically for all users? as far as i know... if im wrong id be interested too.

[danrhodes]

Ahh I get you now!

 

Just export a user list from AD and create all the folders using mkdir it shouldn't be too difficult to write a quick batch program to do that should it!

 

1. Export your usernames

 

2. Use Excel to put 1 and 1 together

 

In column A

MKDIR D:\HTTP_ROOT\Users\

 

In column B

User1

 

In column C

=Concatenate(A1,B1)

 

Coulmn D you should get

MKDIR D:\HTTP_ROOT\Users\User1

 

Drag column D down and you should get:

 

MKDIR D:\HTTP_ROOT\Users\User1

MKDIR D:\HTTP_ROOT\Users\User2

MKDIR D:\HTTP_ROOT\Users\User3

MKDIR D:\HTTP_ROOT\Users\User4

MKDIR D:\HTTP_ROOT\Users\User5

 

Easy!

Edited March 26, 2010 by danrhodes

[thedarxide]

Yeah, but then I'm not using the home directories am I? This is my problem... Apache does it nice and simply, I assumed IIS would.

[danrhodes]

As I said earlier, if you want to use their home directories then just redirect the Home Folder of your default website to the root of all users home folders, this way you will be able to have http://Http://fileserver1/Username

 

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[danrhodes]

How have you got on with this, is the issue sorted?

[thedarxide]

I've not done it yet. Your last response won't be suitable as it makes the whole directory web enabled, or creates further burden of setting appropriate permissions. I'll use Apache I think, and use the options in the link I found above.

[danrhodes]

I've not done it yet. Your last response won't be suitable as it makes the whole directory web enabled, or creates further burden of setting appropriate permissions. I'll use Apache I think, and use the options in the link I found above.

 

That's cool as long as you get the result you we're after, it doesn't matter how you get there