Web Server and Intranet Website

Lab 12
Configuring and Maintaining Network Security
This lab contains the following exercises and activities:
Exercise 12.1
Installing Internet Information Server
Exercise 12.2
Testing IIS Connectivity
Exercise 12.3
Allowing a Program Through the Firewall
Lab Challenge
Creating Windows Firewall Rules

Exercise 12.1
Installing Internet Information Server
Overview

Because this is only a test deployment, you will be using a Windows 8 computer to function as the web server. In this exercise, you will install Internet Information Services on your workstation and then configure it to host two websites.
Mindset
Internet Information Services enables you to configure websites to use specific port numbers. This makes it possible to test the functionality of Windows Firewall.
Completion time
15 minutes

Question 1
What URLs could you use in your computer’s browser to test the functionality of the intranet website you just created?
You can use the IP address of the computer that is hosting the website

Take a screen shot of the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager console, showing the new site you created, by pressing Alt+Prt Scr, and then paste the resulting image into the Lab 12 worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

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creen shot over this text]

Exercise 12.2
Testing IIS Connectivity
Overview

In this exercise, you will test the functionality of the web server you just installed.
Mindset
The way to test the functionality of a web server is to attempt to connect to it.
Completion time
15 minutes

Question 2
What is the result, and what does the result indicate? it goes to 11S 8 microsoft.com/web

Question 3
What is the result, and what does it indicate?
Success. Intranet website can be accessed in both ways http://localhost/ or http:/127.0.0.1.

Question 4
What is the result?

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

Question 5
What is the result?
Success. II7