IIS Internet Information Services and ASP.NET Part 9

welcome to pledging technologies I am venket this is part 9 of asp.net video series in this session we'll learn about what a web server is do you really need I asked to develop and test asp.net web applications how to check if I ass in stalled on your machine if it's not installed how to install that and finally we'll look at configuring is server to run asp.net web applications so what's a web server in simple terms a web server is just a piece of software that can be used to deliver webpages to clients using the hypertext Transfer Protocol for example is is a web server that can be used to run asp.net web applications so do you really need I asked to develop and test asp.net web applications no because Visual Studio ships with a built-in web server if you want to just a build and test web applications on your local machine you don't really need is on your machine okay but then keep in mind the downside of using built in you know Visual Studio development server is that this server will not be able to serve request another computer meaning if two computers are on a network and you have the web application running on one of the computers using the visual studio built-in development server and if you try to access that web application from the other computer you will not be able to do that why because the built-in web server will not be able to serve request to another computer it can be only used to build and test web applications on just that computer okay but when you create new asp.net web applications using visual studio by default Visual Studio uses the built-in web server let's look at that in action now we are in visual studio where I have this asp.net web application project configuring is all I have here is a web form and if you look at this web form it doesn't have any code all all it has this you know an h1 tag showing this message welcome to asp.net training from presume technologies and if we look at the code behind there's no code whatsoever now to run this application we can press control f5 and the moment I do that look at what's going to happen you know the application ron's and it renders this page and then look at the URL here it says HTTP colon four slash four slash localhost meaning the local computer and there's a port number one six four eight zero so this is the port number at which the asp.net development server is running the Visual Studio built in development server is running and to prove that if you click in the notifications area on the taskbar you know you see this little one and you see the tooltip asp.net development server if you double click that you should see a vendor popping up asp.net development server which is used to run asp.net applications locally alone okay so that's one way to see it the built in Visual Studio development server another way is if you actually go to the project properties right click on that and select properties you see on the web tab if you scroll down into the server section you see a radio button there you know use Visual Studio development server that's selected meaning Visual Studio by default is using the built in Visual Studio development server and auto as input is selected which means Visual Studio will automatically select any available port but if you want to override that if you want to provide a port that you know is available you can make use of specific port and specify the port number here all right so that's about using the built-in Visual Studio development server so if you want to locally build and test applications this development server is fine but if you want to make this application available to other users so they can access it from their own computers then you will need is to be deployed on a web server and then point your eye as to your application ok so how do you check if IAS is actually installed I'm on my machine it's very simple click on start type run placenta which will show the run window and to get to the run window you can simply plus the windows button + R and then type in inet MGR Anette manager and click ok now after you click ok if you get an error message that means I is not installed on your machine on the other hand if it shows this is manager window then you know that IAS is installed on your machine ok so if is is not installed on my machine how do I install iOS again to install is it's it's very it's very simple click on the start button and select control panel and within the control panel click on programs by the way I have Windows 7 installed on my machine so if you have any other operating system apart from Windows 7 it might be slightly different but you can Google you know for example if you have Windows 2000 how to install is on Windows 2000 there are loads of articles on the web which will tell you how to do that so within the programs window if you click on turn Windows Features on or off then it should show you a pop-up showing all the features all the windows features from this list select is and then they required you know services within is for example if you want is 6 you know compatibility mode you select that so you basically select is and click OK after a few seconds I should be installed on your machine and then when you go to run window and type I in it manager you know this is manager should open up so let's type I in it manager so that's how you install is so to configure a virtual directory in I asked to run a speed or net web applications how do we do that by the way before we configure virtual directly let's understand what we mean by virtual directly actually let's configure virtual directly and then we'll try and understand what we mean by that virtual directory okay so to configure a virtual directory go to is and then this is the name of the is expand that and you should see something called sites expand that and you should see default website so here you configure a virtual directory and to do that right click on the default website and select add application the ones who select an application it shows this ad application dialog box here you can give an ally as for your virtual directory so what is which will directly don't worry we'll be talking about that in just a bit but let's first create the virtual directory so let me call this my application ok and physical path physical path meaning the path where you have your web application project remember it's the path for the web application project and not the solution path because when we created this project we also got a solution with the same name so if I right-click on the solution and say open folder in Windows Explorer look at that it got created in C Drive configuring is and then within that I have another folder so this configuring is is the solution folder within that solution folder I have this project folder so this is what you will have to select as the physical path because this is what contains your web application files so the physical path for that is C Drive configuring iis and within that you should see another folder configuring is which is what is your web application project directory so I select that I click OK and look at this this virtual directory is created now now if you right click on that in is let me expand this if you right click on that and select switch to content view this virtual directory which is pointing to the physical directory where we have our web application project will show the contents of that physical directory here and if you want to browse the you know files within this virtual directory right click and then select browse and the moment you do that look at this look at the URL now localhost my app web form 1 dot aspx now previously when I use to visual studio look at this if I come to visual studio and press control if I look at what's going to happen let's get to webform 1 let's run that look at this by default if you look at the URL its using the built-in Visual Studio development server but then since I have a virtual directory configured in is I can also use this virtual directory to access my application instead of accessing my application like this what I can actually do okay so this one is what is using our is virtual directly my app if you remember that's the name of this virtual directory okay now if you remember if I right-click on that and if I go to manage for application and advanced settings you see that the physical path is actually this is a virtual etre meaning this directory does not physically exist on my computer it is pointing to this physical directory that's why it's called as a virtual directory and then if somebody in the browser you know localhost is T is my computer and then within that computer there is a virtual directory called my app okay and we know this is knows this virtual directory is actually pointing to this physical directory okay and from that virtual directory I want web form one dot aspx so obviously since this virtual directory is pointing to that physical directory in configuring I as obviously in that physical directory you have web form wonderful SPX which will be served through i as to the client who has requested that perform since this directly does not physically exist in a computer it's called as virtual directory and you use that as part of your URL address to actually point to a physical director because in URL you you don't really give sequel and backslash whatever you give a web address in the URL so you specify the virtual directory there which in turn is pointing to a physical directory through is okay so we have just seen how to create a virtual directory you know through iis you know directly going to is and then you right click on the default website select add application and you specify an alias and then a physical path where you actually have your project okay rather than doing that you can also do that directly from visual studio for example when I press control f5 by default that's using the visual studio development server let's say we don't want that I want in a visual studio to use the IAEA's server that I have on my machine and to do that you can actually select use local is web server and look at this it will give you a default this is the name of the virtual directory which is going to be created in the is if you don't want that you can change it for example let's say my web app so I'm gonna call my virtual directory as my web app and you have a button here create virtual directory so the moment you do that what's gonna happen Visual Studio is going to create a virtual directory on your behalf in the I as automatically so the message the virtual directory was created successfully click OK now if I go to IAS and then refresh this I should see my web app created and obviously if you right-click on that switch to content to you by the way these are the features of is if you want to browse the contents of the physical folder to which this virtual directory is pointing right click on that and select switch to content view and it should list the same contents okay and if you want to browse that you can right click and say browse and look at what's gonna happen it's going to show the same waveform but look at this Here I am referring to this application using my web app which is nothing but that virtual directory and previously we are using my web which technically proves that you can have as many virtual directories as you want you know and then point them to the same physical directory but we don't do that in reality alright so basically there are two ways to create a virtual directory you can either do that directly from is or you can do that from visual studio and to do that you select if you want to do that from visual studio you use the configuring I as project properties window so two to recap what we have seen basically by default visual studio uses the built-in web server to run your asp.net web applications it's fine if you want to just build and test your applications but then if you want to make your application available over the network so that users can access that from another computer then you need the full-blown version of iOS and you need to install iOS on your machine once is is installed you need to configure iOS and basically there are two ways to configure that you can do that directly from the IAS and to get to I as you can simply click on Windows run and type in INF manager and within the is which opens up you can actually create a virtual directory there or you can do that from visual studio which will create the virtual directory automatically for you on this slide you can find resources for asp.net c-sharp and sequel server interview questions if you want to receive email alerts when new videos are uploaded please subscribe to my youtube channel at youtube.com for / kud venkat ve and ket that's it for today thank you for listening have a great day

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Keywords: iis, asp.net, Internet Information Services, install iis, configure iis

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Length: 14min 26sec (866 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 20 2012