[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change]

Web Site Property Sheet

Use this property sheet to set the identification parameters for your Web site. For a site IP address to be available on this property sheet, the TCP/IP setting for the site must first be configured on the computer being administered.

Web Site Identification

Description

Type any name you want for the server name.

Click the Advanced button to configure IP address, TCP port number, SSL port number, and host header name. The Advanced Multiple Web Site Configuration dialog box appears.

IP address

For an address to appear in this box, it must have already been defined for use on the computer being administered in Control Panel. See your Windows documentation for more information. If you do not assign a specific IP address, this site responds to all IP addresses assigned to this computer and not assigned to other sites, which makes this the default Web site.

TCP port

Determines the port on which the service is running. The default is port 80. You can change the port to any unique TCP port number; however, clients must know in advance to request that port number, or their requests fail to connect to your server. A port number is required and cannot be left blank.

Connections

Unlimited

Select this option to allow an unlimited number of connections to occur simultaneously.

Limit to

Select this option to limit the maximum number of simultaneous connections to the site. In the dialog box, type the maximum number of connections permitted.

Connection timeout

Sets the length of time in seconds before the server disconnects an inactive user. This ensures that all connections are closed if the HTTP protocol fails to close a connection.

HTTP keep-alives enabled

Allows a client to maintain on open connection with your server, rather than re-opening the client connection with each new request. Disabling Keep-Alives may degrade server performance. Keep-Alives is enabled by default.

Enable logging

Select this option to enable your Web site's logging features, which can record details about user activity and create logs in your choice of format. After enabling logging, select a format in the Active log format list. The formats are as follows:

- Microsoft IIS Log File Format - A fixed ASCII format.
- NCSA Common Log File Format - The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) common format; a fixed ASCII format.
- W3C Extended Log File Format - A customizable ASCII format, selected by default. This format is must be selected in order to use Process Accounting.
- ODBC Logging Properties (Only Available with Windows 2000 Server and later) - A fixed format logged to a database.

To configure the options for log file creation (for example, weekly, or by file size), or to configure properties for W3C Extended logging or ODBC logging, click Properties. The Extended Logging Properties dialog box appears where you can set Logging - General Properties or Extended Logging Properties.

###### See also

Enabling HTTP Keep-Alives

Enabling Logging

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