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Create Manual WebSite in IIS

Summary: How to manually create a website in IIS
Date: Around 2017
Refactor: 1 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.

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I needed to create a redirect in a local environment, as a temporary solution, so end-users could access a specific website using a short url. The url was already made available through dns and was simply: http://applicationtest.

Note that if this is not already done you can add the following line in your hosts file C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts when testing: 10.10.10.10 applicationtest where 10.10.10.10 is the IP address of the server running IIS.

Create an IIS Website Manually

Follow the steps below to manually create a website for applicationtest: 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=https://www.shiftwiki.nl/">
    <title>ApplicationTest Redirect</title>
</head>
<body>
    <p>This page will redirect you to ApplicationTest in the cloud. If that fails, click the link below:</p>
    <a href="https://www.shiftwiki.nl/">Application Test</a>
</body>
</html>

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