Moving a site from IIs6 to IIS7.5
- by Sukotto
I need to move a site off of IIS6 (Win Server 2003) and onto IIS7.5 (Win Server 2008) as soon as possible. Preferably tomorrow.
The site itself is a delightful mix of classic asp (vbscript) and one-off asp.net (C#) applications (each asp.net app is in its own virtual dir and has a self-contained web.config).
In case it's relevant, this is a sort of research site made up of 40 or 50 unconnected microsites. Each microsite is typically a simple form allowing a user to submit a form, which then runs a Stored Proc on a sqlserver db and displays a chart and/or table of the results.
There is very little security to worry about. The database connection info is in a central file (in the case of the classic asp) or app's individual web.config (lots of duplication there)
To add a little spice to the exercise...
I have no idea how to admin IIS
The company no longer employs the sysadmin or the guys who set this thing up. (They're not going to employ me much longer either but my sense of professional pride does not permit me to just walk away from this task).
The servers are on mutually firewalled networks and I have to perform a convoluted, multi-step process to copy anything from one to the other.
Would someone please point me to a crash-course tutorial for accomplishing the above?
I have:
a complete copy of the site's filesystem on the new box
installed the 3rd party charting tool on the new system
a config.xml file from the "all tasks - save configuration to a file" right click menu. There doesn't seem to be a way to import it on the new system however.
The newer IIS manager has a completely different UI and I'm totally lost.
Please help.
