Very new to intranet

sneb · #1 (**permalink**) 06-07-2006, 06:58 PM

I work in the healthcare industry but enjoy working with computers on the side and I recently published my first web site with godaddy for our new clinic. Our doctor bought a new server for our electronic charts and I though it would be a good idea to create an intranet for the employees. It has MS IIS and unfortunately that is about all I know. Can any one guide me to a very basic article about how to configure IIS for the intranet? I assume I would just create a website like I did before but where do I put it on the hard drive and do I need to tell the computer where it is so people can access it? I noticed when I uploaded to godaddy there were some files already there that it needed for some reason so I assume I need to have something similar on our server in the intranet folder? Any very basic help you can give a noob is greatly appreciated.

sneb · #2 (**permalink**) 06-15-2006, 11:58 AM

Apparently nobody knows how to host your own intranet site.....

JPnyc · #3 (**permalink**) 06-15-2006, 12:01 PM

Well to begin with, yes, you create it like you would a website, exactly the same. You place it on your server, and then you just need to restrict access to just people on your company lan. Here's a tutorial on .htaccess which should help.

JPnyc · #4 (**permalink**) 06-15-2006, 12:05 PM

Oh, one more thing, if you're hosting with a non-server windows OS (i.e. win2k, XP) then IIS will be limited to 6 connections at a time. With a windows server OS, there's no limit

sneb · #5 (**permalink**) 06-19-2006, 12:39 PM

Thanks for the help. I wouldn't need to do all the htaccess stuff if the server is located locally with a 192.168.... IP address would I? Do I place the website someplace specific on the server hard drive? When I configure IIS (MS Server 2003) to be a web server does it automatically know where to find the web page I made and whatever. I think I know how to configure IIS to be a webserver but is there anything I should know that may not be straight forward from the Help file? I am sure these are all very stupid questions but like I said, I'm just beginning to do this. Thanks again.

JPnyc · #6 (**permalink**) 06-19-2006, 01:37 PM

Not as long as it's not connected to the internet somehow. If it's serving only on your private internet then no worries.

ua549 · #7 (**permalink**) 06-21-2006, 02:38 PM

You may want to look at Microsoft SharePoint Server. IIRC They have a free trial.

SharePoint is ideal for collaboration using a web browser. The server portion works with IIS.