Administering an ISP Installation

Customizing Your Installation

In this section, you’ll learn how IIS 5.0 can help simplify the task of managing multiple Web sites and content. You’ll learn how to host multiple Web sites or domains on one IP address, by assigning host header names to each site. You’ll also see how to bring older browsers into compliance with HTTP 1.1, so that they can support host headers. Since sites often change locations, you’ll learn how to redirect requests to the new location. Next, you’ll see how to control Web content that is held in a browser’s cache, by using custom HTTP headers, as well as how to use custom HTML footers for all pages contained in a Web site. And finally, for a site that needs a footer in each document it publishes, you’ll learn how to embed a link to an include file. This will make it easier to update the footer content throughout the site.

See the following:

Hosting Multiple Sites with One IP Address
Supporting Non–HTTP 1.1–Compliant Browsers
Making Redirects Work for You
Setting Up Custom HTTP Headers
Customizing HTML Footers