Adding a Non-Commerce Web Server to an Application

You can use Commerce Server Manager to add a Web server that does not use Commerce Server components. The purpose of adding a non-Commerce Web server is so you can make the Web server log files available to the Data Warehouse for import.

Notes

• When the Web servers in this application are running IIS box in the Application Properties dialog box is selected, you can only use the property New log file period or Log file mask; you cannot use both properties.
• If the Synchronize the log file name and location box in the Application Properties dialog box is selected, the value in Log file directory in the Web Server Properties dialog box is overwritten with the value in IIS.
• The Synchronize Values button is only activated when Web servers in the application are using IIS option is selected on the General tab in the Applications Properties dialog box, and you have made changes using the IIS user interface. You can then use the Synchronize Values button to synchronize Commerce Server Manager with IIS.

To add a non-Commerce Web server to an application

1. Expand Commerce Server Manager, expand Commerce Sites, and then expand the site you want to administer.
2. Expand Applications, click the name of the non-Commerce application to which you want to add the Web server, right-click it, point to New, and then click Add Non-Commerce Web Server.
3. In the New Non-Commerce Web Server dialog box, on the Identities tab, type the name of the computer that hosts the non-Commerce Web server.
4. In the Identities box, click Add.
5. In the Web Site Configuration dialog box, type the IP address, TCP port, and Host header name for the non-Commerce Web server, and then click OK.
6. If you are using a secure HTTP host (SSL) in your applications, in the SSL Identities box, click Add.
7. In the Web Site Configuration dialog box, type the IP address and SSL port for the non-Commerce Web server, and then click OK.
8. In the New Non-Commerce Web Server dialog box, on the Log Files tab, do the following:

   Use this	To do this
   New Log Time Period	This box is only populated if you are using IIS.
   Log file mask	If needed, specify a custom log file rotation, indicating how long the IIS Web site writes to a log file before it creates a new file. For more information, including examples of what to type in this box, see Specifying a Web Server Log File Mask.
   Log file directory	Type the log file path to which the Web site writes events (for example, C:\Winnt\System32\LogFiles\Log1). You may want to specify a directory to which you copy the Web log files from the Web server to a central location before you run the import DTS tasks.
   Log file code page	This box displays the code page used by the entire file.
   URL encoding code page	This box displays the code page used for all URLs.

9. Click OK.

See Also

Adding a Non-Commerce Application to a Site

Specifying a Web Server Log File Mask

Securing your IIS Log File Folder

Enabling SSL on a Commerce Server Site

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