EasyIIS - Easy IIS Manager for Windows XP
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Background
Right now, I don't have a web server (Windows xxxx server), and as you all know, building multiple web sites on Windows XP is not very simple. Even if you have a server, you will always need a way of test something on you local computer before you upload it to the production server, and this solution may be of some use.
Windows XP IIS:
Problem 1: only one site - Microsoft has provided us with the "admin scripts", so we can create more sites, but these scripts are painful to use.
Solution: So I have decided to build a tool to take that pain go away.
Problem 2: only one site running at a time - this is not really so bad, but I didn't like to have to open "Internet Information Services" every time I have to change from one site to another.
Even knowing that .NET web programming has the bad habit of wanting the "Default Web Site" as the root for development (and if someone knows a way of doing it locally with other sites, I will be happy) , I think this tool may be useful...
Here it goes ...
The EasyIIS Tool
This tool will give you a way to create, delete, and change some properties of the existent sites. I have not implemented "all" the features of the IIS snap-in because I wanted to keep it simple. I wanted to make it as simple as possible, create a site by a few clicks. For extra features, we have always the IIS snap-in!
It will also update the HOSTS file, this way you will be able to access the sites by typing something like http://yousite rather than using http://localhost. This comes in handy to prevent problems with "temporary internet files" like CSS and JS, because you may use (like me) some global CSS files that are different for each site but have the same name.
For example: http://testsite1/global.css and http://testsite2/global.css.
If you don't use the HOSTS file to access the different sites by typing http://testsite1 and http://testsite2, you will have to access the two by typing http://localhost and therefore the file global.css will have the same URL for the two sites (http://localhost/global.css) and this may create some strange problems because the "temporary internet files" will think they are the same file.
This was annoying, so I started to manage the hosts file.
Windows XP lets you run only one site at a time, so there is an option to stop the running site before starting the new one.
About this project, I want to say that I always stop the running site (if that option is active) prior to starting another, this is needed only in Windows XP because only one aite can be running at a time. And to start one, I have to stop the other, or the start command will fail. But the real problem appears when you delete the running site without stopping it before! You will not be able to start another site without a IISRESET or a reboot.
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