what exactly is a "web site"?

"Andy Cheung" <andycheung2000.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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 > I hope this doesn't come across as a totally ridiculous question, but
 > what exactly is a "web site"?
 >
 > On the face of it, I would have thought that a web site is ONLY
 > defined as a folder situated directly underneath the "Web Sites" level
 > in the IIS Manager. Any folder further down the tree is not
 > technically a web site since it's merely a sub folder or virtual
 > directory of a bona fida web site.
 >
 > However, since I can "create" an application at a level further down
 > the tree (thereby assigning it an application pool), I am now
 > wondering if the proper definition of a web site is anything running
 > within an application pool.
 >
 > I'm just wanting to get my terminology right - my colleagues and I
 > frequently talk about "web sites" but we don't really know what we
 > mean by the term "web site". Therefore, I am wondering if there is a
 > de facto definiton of what a web site is when it comes to IIS 6.0.
 > Any thoughts?

In addition to what everyone else has said ...

It's just a logical collection of web pages. It could mean a whole server
or a set of files in a folder. It's up to you exactly what it means - in
the context of how you use it and what you're talking about.

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On 15 Jun 2004 08:04:11 -0700, andycheung2000.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com (Andy
Cheung) wrote:

 >I hope this doesn't come across as a totally ridiculous question, but
 >what exactly is a "web site"?
 >
 >On the face of it, I would have thought that a web site is ONLY
 >defined as a folder situated directly underneath the "Web Sites" level
 >in the IIS Manager. Any folder further down the tree is not
 >technically a web site since it's merely a sub folder or virtual
 >directory of a bona fida web site.
 >
 >However, since I can "create" an application at a level further down
 >the tree (thereby assigning it an application pool), I am now
 >wondering if the proper definition of a web site is anything running
 >within an application pool.
 >
 >I'm just wanting to get my terminology right - my colleagues and I
 >frequently talk about "web sites" but we don't really know what we
 >mean by the term "web site". Therefore, I am wondering if there is a
 >de facto definiton of what a web site is when it comes to IIS 6.0.
 >Any thoughts?

It's the same as any other definition. It's a page or set of pages
accessible using a web browser. In IIS, it's whatever you configure
as a web site..

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