Parallels HELM 4.1.2 Provider guide

Parallels® Helm

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Contents

Preface 4

Typographical Conventions ........................................................................................................... 4

Feedback ....................................................................................................................................... 5

Installing IIS 7 6

Using Parallels Helm with Microsoft IIS 7 7

Setting Up the IIS 7 Module 9

Setting Up an IIS 7 Service 10

Setting Up an IIS 7 Resource 13

Setting Up a DNS Template 15

Adding IIS Extra Features 17

Adding the IIS Resource into Your Plan Template 18

In this chapter:

Typographical Conventions ............................................................................... 4

Feedback .......................................................................................................... 5

Formatting convention

Type of Information

Example

Special Bold

Items you must select,
such as menu options,
command buttons, or
items in a list.

Go to the System tab.
Titles of chapters,
sections, and
subsections.

Read the Basic
Administration chapter.

Italics

Used to emphasize the
importance of a point, to
introduce a term or to
designate a command
line placeholder, which is
to be replaced with a real
name or value.

The system supports the
so called wildcard
character search.

Monospace

The names of
commands, files,
directories, and domain
names.

The license file is located
in the

http://docs/common/
licenses directory.

C H A P T E R 1

Preface

Typographical Conventions

Before you start using this guide, it is important to understand the documentation
conventions used in it.

The following kinds of formatting in the text identify special information.

Preface 5

Preformatted

On-screen computer
output in your command­line sessions; source
code in XML, C++, or
other programming
languages.

# ls –al /files

total 14470

Preformatted
Bold

What you type,
contrasted with on-screen
computer output.

# cd /root/rpms/php

CAPITALS

Names of keys on the
keyboard.

SHIFT, CTRL, ALT

KEY+KEY

Key combinations for
which the user must
press and hold down one
key and then press
another.

CTRL+P, ALT+F4

Feedback

If you have found a mistake in this guide, or if you have suggestions or ideas on how to
improve this guide, please send your feedback using the online form at

http://www.parallels.com/en/support/usersdoc/. Please include in your report the

guide’s title, chapter and section titles, and the fragment of text in which you have found
an error.

Depending on how your server is set up, you may or may not have Microsoft IIS

C H A P T E R 2

Installing IIS 7

installed. IIS is a mandatory install if you want to use Parallels Helm. It is used to host
the Parallels Helm Web site, and will also host any Web sites you wish to create.

To install Microsoft IIS 7 on your server, please follow these guidelines:

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/29/installing-iis7-on-windows-server-2008/