How to Configure IIS Web Site Authentication
- Use an administrative account to log on to the Web server.
- Start IIS Manager or open the IIS snap-in.
- Expand
Server_name, where
Server_name is the name of the server, and then expand Web Sites. - Use one of the following methods (as appropriate to your situation), and then click Properties:
- To configure authentication for all Web content that is hosted on the IIS server, right-click Web Sites.
- To configure authentication for an individual Web site, right-click the Web site that you want.
- To
configure authentication for a virtual directory or a physical
directory in a Web site, click the Web site that you want, and then
right-click the directory that you want, such as
_vti_pvt. - To configure authentication for an individual page or file in a Web site, click the Web site that you want, click the folder that contains the file or the page that you want, and then right-click the file or the page that you want.
- In the ItemNameProperties dialog box (where ItemName is the name of the item that you selected), click the Directory Security or the File Security tab (as appropriate).