We'll start by creating a new web-site using the new IIS 7.0
admin tool. This admin tool is a complete re-write of the previous IIS
admin tool (and was written entirely in managed code using Windows Forms), and
provides a more logical organization of web features. It provides a GUI
admin experience for all ASP.NET and IIS settings:
Figure 1
To create a new site on the box, right click
on the "Web Sites" node in the left hand tree-view pane and choose
the "Add Web Site" context menu option. Enter the appropriate
details to create a new web-site:
Figure 2
One nice feature of IIS7 on Windows Vista is that you can
now have an unlimited number of sites on a box (previous versions of IIS on
Windows Client only allowed 1 site). The 10 simultaneous request
limitation on Windows Client versions of IIS also no longer exists with IIS
7.0.
Once we've completed the above steps, we will now have a brand
new site running on our IIS web-server.
