When you have installed Windows Small Business Server
2008, it automatically creates an internal web site for its network. In
reality, any company that joins the domain also has its own web site, which makes it
possible to make some of its contents available to the other computers of
the same network. You can then customize any of the web sites of
your intranet.
The first thing you should know is how to access one
of the web sites of the intranet. You should first know the name of your
domain. When you install Microsoft Windows Server 2008, at one time you
are asked to provide a name for the domain. The name you give is appended
.local. For example, if you create a domain named functionx, it
complete name becomes functionx.local.
To access the web site hosted on a computer, you must
use the name of that computer. To access a site, open a browser. In the
address bar, set the address as
http://ComputerName.DomainName.local
For example, if you have a computer named
central that belongs to a domain named functionx.local, you can access its
intranet site with:
http://central.functionsme.local
YThe default intranet site of a computer displays the
default page of IIS7:
Of course, the default web page of an intranet site is
boring. To make it useful, you must customize it. To start, you must locate the folder that holds the
primary files of the site. To do this, use a file utility such as Windows
Explorer. Normally, the web site is at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot. Probably the
first thing to do would consist of creating the home page. To do this,
open a text editor such as Notepad and type the necessary HTML code in i.
Here is an example:
<html> <head> <title>Bethesda Car Rental</title> </head> <body> <h2>Bethesda Car Rental</h2> <p>Welcome to Bethesda Car Rental</p> </body> </html>
Save the file as index.htm (or index.html, or
default.htm, or default.html; there are a few other names you can use) in
the C:\Inetpub\wwwroot folder. That's it| Once you access the computer
using its address in the browser, its home page would display. Here is an
example:
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Probably the most important web site of your network
will reside on one of your servers. If your network includes many
computers, you can distribute the web site on many folders from different
web sites. Still, the simplests site for a small business would bee hosted
on one server.
As mentioned already, the web site is
in the
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot folder. The person who work on the web site should have
access to that folder and should have administrative rights on that folder.
For example, he or she must be able to create sub-folders, delete
sub-folders, and perform other necessary file operations. For example, if
you are the webmaster, you can create the necessary files in the root
folder. You can also create a sub-folder named images in which you would put
the necessary pictures.
For example, we are using a file named index.htm and
another file named bcr.css added to the
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot folder. We also use a sub-folder named images:
The images sub-folder contains the pictures of the web site.
Once the files have been created or added, the web site is ready:
It is that simple. Of course, there are many other
things you can do either to customize the intranet or to create additional
web sites, but the ideas here give you a foundation.
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