Create a Web development mirror

The purpose of this assignment is to give you practice setting up a mirror of your live site on your development system.

To do this assignment, you must have the IIS Web server installed on your development system. You can check to see if it is by looking for a directory called c:\inetpub\wwwroot. If it is not there, install IIS using the "Add/Remove Windows Components" option on the left side of "Add or Remove Programs" in the control panel.

Once IIS is installed, copy your entire Web site on sws.csudh.edu to your development system. Put it in the Web root directory on your development system:

   c:\intepub\wwwroot\

Be sure to copy all of your subdirectories.

If the mirror is correct, linking to:

http://localhost/ or http://127.0.0.1/ Should be exactly the same as linking to: http://sws.csudh.edu/<your account name>/

Test the various links on your new development system to make sure they all work.

When you are satisfied that your mirror site is a perfect duplicate of your live site, print and turn in screen shots and HTML listings of your home page on both the class server and on your home development system. Also turn in a printout of the list of files in your c:\inetpub\wwwroot directory.

Be sure the screen shots are of a browser accessing your mirror site from the "localhost" Web server -- do not directly display the files from drive C.

You will use FTP to copy the files from sws.csudh.edu to your development system. You can use the command-line FTP client if you wish. Alternatively, you might want to download and install a Windows-based FTP client.

There are many Windows-based FTP clients on the market. One which is free to students is WS_FPTLite.

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