Launching your first website
This seems like a logical first step, so let's get a website started! You actually already have one, but it's pretty useless at the moment. As soon as you finished installing the IIS role, a standard website was started automatically so that you can verify everything is working as it should. Now, we want to replace that default website with one of our own so that we can make some real use of this new server.
Getting ready
We will be accomplishing all our work from our new Server 2019 web server. This one does happen to be domain-joined, but that is not a requirement. You would be able to launch a website on a standalone, workgroup-joined server just as easily.
How to do it…
Follow these steps to start your first website on this new IIS web server:
- Open Server Manager and open the Tools menu. Then, click on Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
- In the left-hand window, expand the name of your server and click...