Hacks #54-61
Internet Information Services (IIS) is one
of the more popular features of Windows server platforms. Whether
you're running IIS 5 (Windows 2000 Server) or IIS 6
(Windows Server 2003), the ability to hack the metabase (the place
where IIS stores its configuration settings) lets you do things that
are impossible to do using the standard GUI tool for managing
IISnamely, Internet Services Manager.
Before you start hacking the metabase, however,
you'd better be sure you've backed
it up properly and know your way around inside it. Several hacks in
this chapter deal with these topics, including how to restore the
metabase when you have no working backup. Also included are tips on
how to hide the metabase from attackers to make it more secure, how
to use scripts to manage different aspects of IIS, and how to allow
other HTTP services, such as the Apache web server, to run on Windows
and coexist with IIS.