Hi All,
We have a web server(on win. 2003 and IIS 6) and it hosts our web site to
internet.
Is it possibe to create a second website on that web server for only
intranet usage ?
I mean the internet users should not see or use this second one ...
Thank you for any advice...
Thanks....
On Mar 29, 2:01=A0pm, "Ned White"
> Hi All,
>
> We have a web server(on win. 2003 and IIS 6) and it hosts our web site to
> internet.
> Is it possibe to create a second website on that web server for only
> intranet usage ?
>
> I mean the internet users should not see or use this second one ...
>
> Thank you for any advice...
>
> Thanks....
You need to first define what you mean by "Intranet" and "Internet".
Once you have that definition, then you can start to configure the
server (or anything else) to differentiate based on that definition.
For example, you could define "Internet" as "all traffic which comes
through one particular network interface", in which case you can
literally create and bind your Intranet website to a network interface
that is not connected to the Internet but is connected to the
Intranet, and that naturally does what you want.
If you happen to have one network connection coming into the server,
then you may have to discriminate internal vs external users by their
IP Addresses (routable Internet and Intranet addresses are different),
but be aware that IP Addresses can be spoofed so it is not 100%
solution.
However, physical separation of network interfaces -- that is 100%
secure since network traffic can't just "hop" from one physical
network to the other without any connection in between.
//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
//
"Ned White" wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We have a web server(on win. 2003 and IIS 6) and it hosts our web site to
> internet.
> Is it possibe to create a second website on that web server for only
> intranet usage ?
>
> I mean the internet users should not see or use this second one ...
>
> Thank you for any advice...
>
> Thanks....
>
>
>
Hello Ned,
Yes it is possible to do that. However, that is the usual scenario in
production environment because of various reasons. One way what I think you
can do is to configure these website by 2 different IP's. In such a case
there will be no interaction between the 2 sites. Health wise - do keep the 2
websites in differnt AppPools... Again this is not a general prod scenario.
--
Regards,
ma_khan