Clueless about IIS - is this correct?

[nickisme]

Hi - I've just bought a small amount of webspace, without really thinking about what I'm doing. I usually buy space that's on a UNIX server using Apache, however this new space is using IIS. I suddenly realised that I can't use .htaccess files etc. and began to try and figure out how to edit website settings.

However, when I view the site's contents in FTP, I simply find two folders - web (obviously containing site content), and log (containing um, usage logs). I've been trying to research IIS, but am a bit confused about all of this - should there be an easy way to get into some kind of IIS control panel... or indeed anything along those lines? Or am I approaching this in completely the wrong way?

Cheers, sigh... :)

[chrismartz]

IIS has nothing like apache's .htaccess. The closest thing you can get to is the global.asa file. This file contains four main procedures: Application_OnStart, Application_OnEnd, Session_OnStart, and Session_OnEnd.

The only problem is that most hosting companies do not allow you to edit this file because you would be changing this for other hosted sites too. I hope this helps.

[nickisme]

Ah, that's a shame but I'll investigate. Many thanks!