The Web Server Environment - Database Processing: Fundamentals, Design, and Implementation - page 464

or
● click [Windows Key] + X to open the Quick Access Menu, then click Control Panel
to open the Control Panel. In the Control Panel, open System and Security , and then
open Administrative Tools . The shortcut icon for Internet Information Services
Manager is located in Administrative Tools.
Note that the files shown in the Default Web Site folder in Figure 11-23 are the same files
that are in the wwwroot folder in Figure 11-24—they are the default files created by IIS when
it is installed. In Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012 ,
the file iisstart.htm generates the Web page that Internet Explorer (or any other Web browser)
contacting this Web server over the Internet will display.
To test the Web server installation, open your Web browser, type in the URL http://localhost ,
and press the Enter key. For Windows Server 2012, the Web page shown in Figure 11-25 (in the
Microsoft IE 10 Web browser) appears. If the appropriate Web page isn't displayed in your Web
browser, your Web server is not properly installed.
Now we will set up a small Web site that can be used for Web database processing of the View
Ridge Gallery VRG database. First, we will create a new folder named DBP (Database Processing)
under the wwwroot folder. This new folder will be used to hold all the Web pages developed in
discussions and exercises in this topic. Second, we will create a subfolder of DBC named VRG .
This folder will hold the VRG Web site. You create these folders using Windows Explorer.
Getting Started with hTML Web Pages
The most basic Web pages are created using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) . The
term hypertext refers to the fact that you can include links to other objects, such as Web pages,
maps, pictures, and even audio and video files in a Web page, and when you click the link, you
are immediately taken to that other object and it is displayed in your Web browser. HTML
itself is a standard set of HTML syntax rules and HTML document tags that can be inter-
preted by Web browsers to create specific onscreen displays.
Tags are usually paired, with a specific beginning tag and a matching ending tag that in-
cludes the backslash character ( / ). Thus, a paragraph of text is tagged as { paragraph text here },
and a main heading is tagged as { heading text here }. Some tags do not need a separate end tag
because they are essentially self-contained. For example, to insert a horizontal line on a Web
page, you use the horizontal rule tag, Note that such single, self-contained tags must include
the backslash character as part of the tag.
This Web page is
generated by the
iisstart.htm file
Figure 11-25
the Default IIS 8.0 Web
Page in Windows Server
2012 and IE 10