In this exercise, you see how to configure the standard “Default Web Site” that ships with IIS. Although
it’s possible to create more than one site under IIS on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008
R2, and Windows Server 2012, this option is not discussed here. Contact your system administrator or
read the documentation that comes with IIS to learn more about creating multiple websites under IIS.
Most of the steps in Windows 8 are identical to those in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and
Windows Server 2012. However, the screens you see in the following exercise are taken in Windows 8
and are slightly different on the other operating systems.
If you’re doing this exercise on a machine other than the one you used to build the Planet Wrox site, be
sure to copy the BegASPNET folder to the root of the C drive of the target machine. Also make sure this
machine has access to SQL Server 2012, installed either locally or on another remote machine.