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9. Enter the description of the website as OurNewSharePointSite.
10. Leave the IP default setting, and enter the TCP Port Number as any number
other than port 80 or 8080 (or any administration site port). For our example,
OurNewSharePointSite will be on port 382. When you have entered the port
number, click Next.
11. On the Web Site Home Directory window, click Browse and navigate to the
directory for the SharePoint site (e:\OurNewSharePointSite).
12. Click e:\OurNewSharePointSite to select it, and then click OK. The path
shown should be the directory you selected. Click Next to continue.
13. On the Web Site Access Permissions page, leave the default settings (which are
Read and Run) selected and click Next to complete the wizard.
14. Click Finish to close. The new site should appear in the list of websites.
15. Repeat steps 5 and 6 for OurNewASPNetSite using a different port number
(not 80 or 8080). In our example, we will use port 383.
As a best practice, we need to set the Application Pool settings for the Windows
SharePoint Services site, OurNewSharePointSite, so that it uses the common application
pool for all SharePoint sites. If SharePoint Portal Server is installed, always use the
application pool created by SharePoint Portal Server 2003, named MSSharePointPortal-
AppPool, as the setting for any SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or Windows SharePoint
Services sites. If SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is not installed, use MSSharePoint-
AppPool. To set the application pool used by the site, follow these steps:
1. In the IIS Management console under the Web Sites folder, right-click the
OurNewSharePointSite site, and then from the menu, select Properties.
2. On the Site Properties page, select the Home Directory tab.
3. On the bottom of the tab, find the Application Pool drop-down list.
4. Select either MSSharePointPortalAppPool or MSSharePointAppPool (depending
on your installation), and click OK.
You might have noticed that we used OurNewSharePointSite as the name of
our Windows SharePoint Services site in IIS. This name has no connection to the
SharePoint site name; it is simply the virtual directory that will hold the site.
Tip Leave the default privileges on the site. By default, a newly created virtual
server in Windows SharePoint Services inherits the settings from defaults
set on the Central Administration pages. You can change these default settings
once the virtual server is created.