Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

308 Part IV: Deployment Scenarios
■ Virtual Web IP address
■ Application pool
■ Virtual Web-file system directory name and location
To create the virtual servers for a new portal site
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1. Open Administrative Tools and then click Internet Information Services.
2. Right-click the Web Sites container, point to New, and then click Web site.
3. Follow the directions to start the wizard. On the Web Site Description page,
enter a description (such as “SharePoint Cluster,” which is used in Figure 12-25),
and then click Next.
Figure 12-25 Entering a description for the virtual server
4. On the IP Address And Port Settings page, select the IP address of the cluster
in the Enter the IP address to use for this Web site box. Leave the default
TCP port of 80 in the TCP port this Web site should use (Default 80) box,
as illustrated in Figure 12-26.
5. On the Web Site Home Directory page, enter the path to the folders that contain
the Web site for the virtual server, as illustrated in Figure 12-27. (This can be
any physical file folder except Inetpub\wwwbin, because that folder is already
used by the default virtual server.) Deselect the Allow anonymous access
check box, and then click Next.
6. On the Web Site Access Permission page, verify that only Read and Run scripts
(such as Active Server Pages [ASP]) are selected, and then click Next. Finish the
wizard.
7. Repeat the preceding steps on each front-end Web server.