installation question: NT and IIS

[Brent Simmons]

Hi Ned -- your best bet is to get another IP address for that machine. Use
IIS on one address and Frontier/Manila on another.

You can also use IIS to serve pictures and other static files, leaving
Frontier free to concentrate on dynamic pages.

-Brent


On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Balzer, Ned wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am brand new, so I imagine these may be easy questions for many of you and
> I thank you in advance for the help.  We just purchased Manila/Frontier and
> I want to install it on a Windows NT 4.0 server running IIS.  I have about
> 10 production websites on this server so I can't afford to break any of them
> during the install.  My question is what precautions I need to take.  Should
> I add another IP address to the network card for frontier?  Can I get
> frontier to answer on a non-standard port (not port 80) during the
> installation?  Can manila be made to run on top of IIS rather than frontier?
> Is this even a good idea?
>
> I haven't figured out yet whether our preferred use of manila will be to
> create statically rendered pages served by IIS, or whether there would be a
> parallel set of manila websites to the IIS ones (which use manila features),
> but I'm hoping that at least manila can coexist on the same box with IIS.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> -- Ned Balzer
> n.balzer at cgnet.com
>
> P.S. if it's more appropriate you can answer privately.
>
>