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Q313251: HOW TO: Set Up Anon and Basic Authentication on Same Web Content

Article: Q313251
Product(s): Internet Information Server
Version(s): 4.0,5.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbAudITPro kbHOWTOmaster
Last Modified: 19-APR-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Internet Information Server version 4.0 
- Microsoft Internet Information Services version 5.0 
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IN THIS TASK
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- SUMMARY

   - Configure an IIS Web Server

- REFERENCES

SUMMARY
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This step-by-step article describes how to set up both Anonymous and Basic
authentication on the same Web content.

Configure an IIS Web Server
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Your network may contain a firewall to protect one or more IIS Web servers. You
may want to set up a Web site so that internal network users can access the Web
content with Anonymous authentication (that is, internal network users are not
required to provide a user name and password). However, because external
requests are routed through a firewall, external users must connect to the site
with Basic authentication (which should be used in conjunction with SSL
encryption).

To set up Anonymous and Basic authentication on the same Web content, follow
these steps:

NOTE: In the following example, the Web content is stored in the
E:\Inetpub\WWWroot\Test Site folder.

1. Open the IIS Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Internet Services Manager.

2. Create a new Web site and name it External Site.

3. Bind External Site to a static IP address that maps to a Fully Qualified
  Domain Name (FQDN) from an authorized registrar (for example,
  Externaluser.Mysite.com), and make sure that External Site points to
  E:\Inetpub\WWWroot\Test Site.

4. Install a server certificate on External Site. Set the site to use Basic
  authentication only.

5. On the Domain Name System (DNS) Server, create a new host record. Obtain the
  static IP address that is described in step 3.

6. Create a new site and name it Internal Site. Set the IP address to All
  Unassigned. Set the local path for Internal Site to E:\Inetpub\WWWroot\Test
  Site.

7. Set the authentication on Internal Site to Integrated Windows authentication
  (IIS 5.0), Windows NT Challenge/Response (IIS 4.0), or Anonymous
  authentication, depending on your needs.

REFERENCES
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For additional information on setting up SSL and DNS, click the article numbers
below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q299525 HOWTO: Set Up SSL Using IIS 5.0 and Certificate Server 2.0

  Q168322 Creating a DNS Alias Record

Additional query words:

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Keywords          : kbAudITPro kbHOWTOmaster 
Technology        : kbiisSearch kbiis500 kbiis400
Version           : :4.0,5.0
Issue type        : kbhowto

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