help with setting up IIS

i need to set up multiple websites on an intranet server
i need them to be truely virtual though

for example, http://server/website1/ serves up a directory as the web root
(so a link on http://server/website1/index.html that links to "/" will point back to http://server/website1/ - not back to http://server/)

its for a test/development server
...the multiple webroots is important, and i only have one machine, and one IP

machine is windows 2000 pro, with IIS 3.0
i may be able to get IIS 4.0, but only if its absolutely needed

please help

 

[SaigonK]

If you are running Windows 2000 then you already have IIS 5.
Why are you using IIS 3 ? ? ? ?

 

yeah, it is IIS5
i was mis-informed
sorry

i still can't figure out how to get multiple sites though

 

[SaigonK]

Unfortunately with only one IP you are in a pinch.

You could do the following:

1. create two websites under IIS, make one of them map to a different port than the other.

so you would have

http://server/site1:81and http://server/site2

As far as putting people into a specific directory, you just need to make that change on each website.

 

[Workin']

<< Unfortunately with only one IP you are in a pinch. >>

No you're not. Just use host headers to create the virtual sites. Look up how to do it in the IIS help files. It's really, really easy. I mean really easy. Did I mention it's really easy? IF you have Windows 2000 Server or better.

HOWEVER - the problem is you have Windows 2000 PRO - that means that IIS can only host ONE web site, virtual or otherwise. You can have 50 IP addresses and still only host 1 site using Win2k Pro.

you need a server version of Windows 2000 to host multiple web sites.

If you don't need support for VBScript, ASP, or Access databases, then Apache might work well for you. It's free and extremely powerful and flexible.