Testing Your Installation

After installing, you can test your installation by using Internet Explorer to view the files in your home directory.

To test a Web site connected to the Internet
  1. Ensure that your Web server has HTML files in the Wwwroot folder.
  2. Start a Web browser, such as Internet Explorer, on a computer that has an active connection to the Internet. This computer can be the computer you are testing, although using a different computer on the network is recommended
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  3. Type in the URL for the home directory of your new Web site.

    4. The URL is “http://” followed by the name of your Web site, followed by the path of the file you want to view. (Note the forward slash marks.) For example, if your site is registered in DNS as “examples.microsoft.com” and you want to view the file Homepage.htm in the root of the home directory, in the Address box you type http://examples.microsoft.com/homepage.htm, then press Enter. The home page appears on the screen.

 

To test a Web site on your intranet
  1. Ensure that your computer has an active network connection and that the WINS server (or other name resolution method) is functioning.
  2. Start a Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer.
  3. Type in the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for the home directory of your new server.

    4. The URL is “http://” followed by the Windows Networking name of your server, followed by the path of the file you want to view. (Note the forward slash marks.) For example, if your Web site is registered with the WINS server as “Admin1” and you want to view the file Homepage.htm in the root of the home directory, in the Address bar you type http://admin1/homepage.htm, then press Enter. The home page appears on the screen.

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