RE: Default Website - Best Practise?

Thanks WenJun,

I was aware of the metabase property. If a default website I assumed, i
usually get around that by temporarilly setting the ID to 1 during the
website installation and setting back to the original site ID when the
installation has completed.

As I have to reference the Microsoft Best Practise recomendation in my
design documentation (company requirement), could you point to where this is
stated?

Thanks again
Shaun


""WenJun Zhang[msft]"" wrote:

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

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