Chapter 17

Administrating your store remotely with ASPs

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Objectives
How to install and secure the IIS administration pages. How to administer your web server with the IIS administration pages. How to install and administer the IIS FTP service. How to upload files to your site using FTP. How to perform advance, web based catalog maintenance. 12/26/2011 2

The IIS administration pages.

IIS internet service manager web pages give you the ability to perform many site administration tasks from any machine with internet access and a web browser. Install the administration pages. Securing the administration pages.

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Using the administration pages.
Internet service manager (HTML) is used to remotely perform many of the administrative function. Useful tools for performing emergency maintenance on your ecommerce site. The three administrative tasks that the internet service manager (HTML) cannot perform are:
You cannot use it to start or stop a web service. An be used to administer the default website. Can add new virtual directories but cannot change the physical directories.
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Install and administer the IIS FTP service.

The most common remote tasks that you need to perform on your ecommerce will be to add or remove contents Eg: directories, web pages and images. This can be done by using file transfer protocol (FTP). By default FTP service is installed on windows 2000. It is not installed on windows NT.
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Upload files to your site using FTP

FTP is an invaluable tool for site maintenance specially if you are on the road. Before installing the FTP service adding or updating a products picture requires a physical access to the server but now can be done using a combination of FTP and a catalog maintenance pages.

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Advance, web-based catalog maintenance

The remote catalog maintenance is made easier and more secure by using Microsoft posting acceptor. This allows adding or updating all the product attributes including images from a browser page. After moving these files, secure the admin directory by setting a password on the administrative pages.
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