Hosting
ASP.Net Web Sites and SPS Portals on same server
In this article, I will demonstrate how to host Microsoft Sharepoint
2003 (SPS) portals and asp.net web sites on same web server without IIS
conflicts.
Most of SPS developers uses visual studio 2003 for
developing Asp.Net Application on the same machine they develop SPS web parts.
Unfortunately SPS uses wwwroot to host its portals as physical directory. That
results a problem with visual studio 2003 web applications as it uses wwwroot
as default physical directory. That happens because SPS uses front page
extensions.
First after installing sharepoint portal on the server ,
before you create any portal you will have to do the following steps for every
SPS portal
1- you create
a physical folder on any partition and make it web shared
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
2- then in
IIS Manager you will create a web site for the portal ( because Visual Studio
2003 uses the default web site ). You open IIS Manager from start menu as
displayed in figure 4
Figure 4
Then you will have IIS manager
displays your server name and a tree of Application pools, web sites, web
server extensions
Figure 5
To create new web site , you right
click on web sites and new then web site and the wizard will appear as in figure
6. first step in wizard is welcome so you press next
Figure 6
In the second step you will write
the portal name that appears in IIS
Figure 7
In the third step in wizard ,you
will have to change the default port 80 as Visual studio web application
already took this port, so we use 8080
Figure 8
In the forth step IIS will ask you
about the physical path that virtual directory will use , you will browse for
the physical folder we have created previously
Figure 9
After you choose the physical path
, you will have to set the list of access permissions as figure 10
Figure 10
Then, now you finished the wizard
of creating a new web site in IIS for sharepoint portal as figure 11
Figure 11
Now , after you finished your
business with IIS , it is time to work with Sharepoint central administration
to create your portal by the sharepoint. You will find administration for
sharepoint from start menu -> administrative tools.
Figure 12
To create new portal in
sharepoint , you visit sharepoint portal server in sharepoint central
administration. You will see list of functionality related to portals as figure
13
Figure 13
To create a new portal, you will
have to fill a few information to create it as figure 14
Figure 14
As we have created special web
site for out portal , we will not use default web site as it is for ASP.Net
Applications , as in figure 14
Figure 14
Now you will press next to
finalize portal creation process
Figure 15
Congratulations you have finished
your first sharepoint portal without any conflicts with your asp.net hosted
applications
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