Skip to main content

Setup & Deploy Web Application on IIS


Setup & Deploy Web Application on IIS Explained

What is IIS?

IIS or Internet Information Server is the server used to host .Net web applications. IIS is normally installed on a Window Server.
For users to access a website, it is required that the website is hosted on some sort of web server. There are different web servers available for different technologies. In .Net, the web server available is called Internet Information Services or IIS.
Once the web application is developed, it is then deployed on an IIS Server. This web application can then be accessed by the end users.

How to install or Configure IIS in Windows OS


Go to Control Panel as shown below

Click on Programs and Feature as shown below

Click on Turn Windows Features on or off on top left corner of the window as shown below

Expand the Internet Information Services folder as show below

Expand the World Wide Web Services as shown below

Expand the Application Development Features as shown below

Now check the folders needed as shown below

Click on Ok and wait for features to be install as shown below



Go to your browser and type localhost in the URL to test if IIS is working successfully.


Now that our IIS is working, let’s start publishing our web application. Launch the application we created in our previous post

Build the web application to ensure there are no errors, if no error found then publish the application as in the following step by step guide.

Right click on the project and click on publish as shown below

From the publish windows, set the folder path where our published web application be kept as shown below.

Click on the folder and change the location you want to publish your application as shown below.


Now click on the publish button to publish our web application.

If everything been ok, a publish location link will be shown at the output window of Visual Studio as shown below with success message.

IIS Hosting

Our web application is now ready for hosting in IIS

Copy the folder where our web application was published to wwwroot folder of intpub folder of C drive as shown below

Now launch IIS manager window from Control panel and Administrative Tools as shown below

Double click on the Internet Information Services (IIS) manager as shown below

Expand the Server shown on the top left of the window and then expand the sites folder and also expand the Default Web Site folder as shown below

Right click on the csharpnaija folder and click on Convert to Application as shown below

Select the application pool to run our web application as shown below

Our web application is now ready for accessing through localhost as shown below

Now click on the Browse *:80 (http) by the right hand side of the window as shown below

Our application run on IIS localhost on port 80 as shown below.

Congratulation we have hosted our first web application.




Labels:
Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Classes in C# Explained

C# Class Explained A class is nothing but an encapsulation of properties and methods that are used to represent a real-time entity, as explained by Guru99 . For instance, if you want to work with Guest’s data as in our previous DataDriven Web application . The properties of the Guest would be the Id, GuestName, Address, Phone number etc of the Guest. The methods would include the entry and modification of Guest data. All of these operations can be represented as a class in C# as shown below. using System; namespace CsharpnaijaClassTutorial {     public class Guest     {         public int Id { get ; set ; }         public string GuestName { get ; set ; }         public string Address { get ; set ; }         public string WhomToSee { get ; set ; }     ...
1 comment
Read more

ASP.NET MVC Views

Views in ASP.NET MVC Application explained Find a related article By  Steve Smith  and  Luke Latham from Microsoft Corporation here In the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, the  view  handles the application's data presentation and user interaction. A view is an HTML template with embedded  Razor markup . Razor markup is code that interacts with HTML markup to produce a webpage that's sent to the client. In ASP.NET MVC, views are  .cshtml  files that use the  C# programming language  in Razor markup. Usually, view files are grouped into folders named for each of the application's  controllers . The folders are stored in a  Views  folder at the root of the application as shown: The  Home  controller is represented by a  Home  folder inside the  Views  folder.  The  Home  folder contains the views for the  About ,  Contact , and  Index...
Post a Comment
Read more

ASP.NET MVC Routing

ASP.NET MVC Routing ASP.NET MVC routing is a pattern matching system that is responsible for mapping incoming browser requests to specified MVC controller actions. When the ASP.NET MVC application launches then the application registers one or more patterns with the framework's route table to tell the routing engine what to do with any requests that matches those patterns. When the routing engine receives a request at runtime, it matches that request's URL against the URL patterns registered with it and gives the response according to a pattern match. Routing pattern is as follows A URL is requested from a browser, the URL is parsed (that is, break into controller and action), the parsed URL is compared to registered route pattern in the framework’s route table, if a route is found, its process and send response to the browser with the required response, otherwise, the HTTP 404 error is send to the browser. Route Properties ASP.NET MVC routes are res...
Post a Comment
Read more