Run projects on IIS

Depending on your operation system and IIS version, use one of the following procedures to host and run your Sitefinity CMS project on Microsoft Internet Information Services.

First, you need to turn on the IIS and configure your server, then, you create or the project and run it on the IIS. To configure the server, you can use one of the provided PowerShell scripts or perform the manual procedure.

If you are using Multisite, you can run all of your sites under one application pool with different bindings.

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IIS 10.0 on Windows Server 2016 and higher

Manually configure the server to host Sitefinity CMS projects

To run your Sitefinity CMS projects on Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), you must configure the IIS server first.

Run multisite projects on IIS

Setup multiple sites as one site, even if they have different hosts, to run multisite projects on IIS.

Run a Sitefinity CMS instance as parent or child of an ASP.NET application

When hosting ASP.NET application in the root folder and another ASP.NET application in a subdirectory, you can use configuration inheritance to apply all settings to the child application.

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