Ravi .... I m going to launch a web site over the internet and i find the best to do it by makeing my computer a web server which can host my clients through my web site...... I have searched many articles about IIS but i still don't know that is iis can host a web site over the internet or not . If it can then please tell me the whole configration for starting a server on IIS and what the types of extentions of web pages IIS supports.... My questions are......... 1- starting a server on iis and connecting a database to iss. (also type of data base . access or sql ). 2- connection of database to the server. 3- my domain name... Ex..(www.example.com) 4- how to apend database through web site. 5- how to retrive data from database on website. Please help to make this thing working . I m working on it from last 7 months and i feels like i m still a fresher in this. Thanks in advanced ........ 4-

IIS will enable you to host a website. Install it from Add/Remove programs --> Windows components. Buy a domain name and point it to your Static internet IP address. If your Internet address isn't static, you will need to register a host name at dyndns.org (free). Dyndns will act as a middle man and every time your internet IP changes it will update their dns record. Now your domain name will always point to example.dyndns.org Example.dyndns.org will point to the most recent ip held on dyndns's system. www.example.com-->example.dyndns.org-->86.01.01.01 You will need to make sure this server machine has a static IP that you can set your router to forward port 80(unsecured) or port 443(SSL encrypted) to. IIS supports allot of web page extensions, plus you can add extra extensions on. I personally like .php which connects to a mySQL database just nicely. Unfortunately i cannot help on connecting a web page to a database. However as far as i am aware, it is the webpage's that you need to program with tthe database connections. (IP address for the Database server, User name, & password). Gavin