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SUMMARYWith Internet Information Server (IIS), you can create virtual servers that enable a single server to appear as several servers. By convention, each domain name (for example, www.company.com) represents an individual computer. However, it is possible to use a single computer and make it appear to be not only a primary server (for example, named www.company.com), but also servers for different departments of your company (for example, marketing.company.com, sales.company.com, etc.). You can create virtual servers for these departments with Microsoft Internet Information Server. You do not need a different computer for each domain name. MORE INFORMATION
To create virtual servers, you must get Internet Protocol (IP)
addresses from your Internet Service Provider (ISP) for the primary
server and for each virtual server you want to create. For example,
you assign the first IP address (10.212.56.184) in the Domain Name
System (DNS) as www.company.com (your primary server), and assign
C:\Wwwroot as its content home directory. You register the second IP
address (10.212.56.185) in the DNS as marketing.company.com, and
assign a different drive or directory as its content home directory.
Therefore, it appears to users on the Internet that there are two
computers when in fact it is the same computer running one copy of
the WWW Service.
To set up a virtual serverYou set up a virtual server by using the Directories Property in Internet Service Manager.
To specify directories with virtual serversIf you have assigned more than one IP address to your server, when you create a virtual directory, you must specify which IP address has access to that directory. If no IP address is specified, that directory will be visible to all virtual servers.NOTE: The default directories created during setup do not specify an IP address. You may need to specify IP addresses for the default directories when you add virtual servers.
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