IIS madness
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Hi all, I hope some one can give me some advice on the problem I'm facing. Here is some background: I need to host a asp.net 3.5 website through a static IP and a not to common port over the internet. Currently I have a intranet site running on the company's network on a standard XP machine on IIS 5.1, no problem, low trafic. The internet site will also only manage low trafic for the time being. The problem I found now is that IIS 5.1 on XP don't support more than one website on a different port. And also it does not support SSL very well. I'm running vista with IIS 6 that can support the multiple sites on different ports, but it seems SSL is also going to be a problem. I want to use a SSL certificate that I can create on my own, just to handle the encryption between the server and the clients, so to buy one from thawte is not a priority now. The only thing I can think of is to get a Windows 2003 server web edition and manage the sites on that server. I hope someone can give me some advice on this matter. Is Win XP a lost case for this purpose? Can I run the site on Win 2003 with my own SSL certificate? Any other ideas would also be appreciated. Kind regards
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Hi all, I hope some one can give me some advice on the problem I'm facing. Here is some background: I need to host a asp.net 3.5 website through a static IP and a not to common port over the internet. Currently I have a intranet site running on the company's network on a standard XP machine on IIS 5.1, no problem, low trafic. The internet site will also only manage low trafic for the time being. The problem I found now is that IIS 5.1 on XP don't support more than one website on a different port. And also it does not support SSL very well. I'm running vista with IIS 6 that can support the multiple sites on different ports, but it seems SSL is also going to be a problem. I want to use a SSL certificate that I can create on my own, just to handle the encryption between the server and the clients, so to buy one from thawte is not a priority now. The only thing I can think of is to get a Windows 2003 server web edition and manage the sites on that server. I hope someone can give me some advice on this matter. Is Win XP a lost case for this purpose? Can I run the site on Win 2003 with my own SSL certificate? Any other ideas would also be appreciated. Kind regards
Hi all, Ok, the IIS 6.0 Recource Kit toolkit did wonders, even though it states for working only on 6, i installed it and it's working on 5.1. SelfSSL works wonders :) I would still like some advice on Windows server 2003 web edition, would this be the better way to go? Kind regards