> My boss wants to offer web hosting to a certain division of
> our clients. I know that I have been to a hundred web hosters
> that offer automated site set up. The way I've seen it is that
> a customer comes on, finds a name that isn't taken, the web
> server sets up a virtual directory, and set's everything up...
> This is great and suits what I need. Problem is I have no
> idea how it's done... Any help would be appreciated.
With IIS, you can automate management tasks using the Active Directory
Services Interface (ADSI), which is a COM interface. The HTML management
interface used by IIS (if you installed that option) uses ADSI.
Unfortunately, it's difficult to use ADSI directly from CF using CFOBJECT.
You can, however, write wrapper objects or scripts to call from CF which
will then do the ADSI work for you. These wrappers can be made with any
development environment which supports COM, such as Visual Basic or Windows
Script Host. For more info, search for "ADSI" on the MSDN site, or get one
of the available ADSI books from Wrox Press.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444
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