Details
The Web Site Administration Tool lets you view and manage the Web site configuration through a simple Web interface. Changes are reflected to the web.config file for the corresponding web application. It is intended to be used to edit the local copy of your web.config file and not your remote web site. After you make changes, re-deploy your web application to the remote server.
To access the Web Site Administration Tool, on the web site menu, click "ASP.Net Configuration."
It features a tabbed interface that groups related configuration settings within each tab. These include the following:
A. Security Use the Security tab to manage access rules to help secure specific resources within the Web site and to manage user accounts and roles.
By default, a SQL Express database is used to store all the user information. For more details on how to configure the ASP.NET 2.0 Membership/Roles provider to use your remote SQL 2005 database see this Knowledgebase article.
B. Application
- Application settings, which are name/value pairs that you want to store centrally and access in code from anywhere in the Web site.
- SMTP settings, which determine how your site sends e-mail.
- Debug and trace settings.
- Offline and online settings, which take the Web site offline (shut it down) to perform maintenance.
C. Provider Use to test or assign providers for membership and role management for the web application.
For more information on this tool, please visit http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yy40ytx0.aspx
