Creating a Subweb on Falcon

 Problem Description : 

Request for a student organization or club website

 Resolution : 

Throughout these instructions, subweb is the name of the web site being setup.

1. Make a root folder on \\falcon\d\inetpub named 'subwebroot'

2. Make a webmaster_subweb group...Add users to the group that should have update access to the web site.

3. Set permissions on the subwebroot folder to:

-Domain Admins : Full

-Webmaster_subweb : Modify

-IUSR7 : Read Only

-FALCON\IIS_IUSRS : Read Only

4. Make a share named wwwsubweb for the directory and set share permissions to:

-Domain Admins : Full

-Webmaster_subweb : Full

5. Using Manage Computer, create website in IIS as follows:

- Next to Site Name select SubWebAppPool

-Description – Enter description to show in IIS

-Select IP – select 168.26.240.26

-Port – leave as 80

-Host – subweb.gordonstate.edu

-Path – d:\inetpub\subwebroot

6. Under Site Settings Authentication Right click Anonymous Authentication - Edit and Set user to IUSR7 account

7. After creating website, enter Properties and set document types for index.html and index.htm

8. Add alias for URL to the DNS under Eagle|Forward Lookup Zones|www.gordonstate.edu. I.e., create Alias (CNAME) record named subweb to falcon.gordonstate.edu

9. For testing purposes, copy a test index.htm to the subwebroot directory (template saved under \\eagle\d$\inetpub\devl as index_club.htm - update html file with club's name in H2 tag and page title)

10. Modify system login script (v:\kudzu.kix) to map r: drive to the \\falcon\wwwsubweb share created above. (use copy/paste from existing mappings)      

 Revision Date : 12/2/2014