Re: Default Website - Best Practise?

I agree entirely; unfortunately I have to deal with some dumb software until
the company gets it act together and rewrites it code.....

"Roger Abell [MVP]" wrote:

Personally, if I attempt to install something and it is so dumb
as to assume the w3svc instance into which I want it installed,
then I do not what that crap code installed anyway.

The practice of moving the default site, or any other for that
matter, to a NTFS partition used only for web content originated
with attempts to prevent use of parent path traversal from getting
to executables. If parent paths is enabled, this is still a valid
practice as far as I can tell, although not necessarily to prevent
execution of what it can potentially make accessible.

Roger

""WenJun Zhang[msft]"" <wjzhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:IauxvBdVHHA.4088@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Shaun,

Yes, deleting the default web site is not recommended. This is because the
Default Web Site's ID in IIS metabase is 1 by default, i.e: /LM/W3SVC/1 .
You can check this by using Metabase Explorer utility in IIS 6.0 resource
kit tools:

Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Resource Kit Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=56fc
92ee-a71a-4c73-b628-ade629c89499

Some web application's uses the path /LM/W3SVC/1 by default. If the site
is
deleted, the installer cannot find this path and the installation process
fails.

Setting the home folder path of the default web site and log file path to
a
dedicated NTFS volume shouldn't affect anything because most of web
application installation are using virtual directories. Even if it refers
to the Default Web Site's physical path, the installer should look for the
Path property under /LMW3SVC/1/Root to locate it and copy files.

Please let me know if you have any further question.

Thanks for using MSDN newsgroup and have a nice day.

Sincerely,

WenJun Zhang

Microsoft Online Community Support

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