PRJ2000: How to Move Microsoft Project Central to a Different Web Site (314567)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Project 2000, when used with:
    • the operating system: Microsoft Windows 2000
    • the operating system: Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
This article was previously published under Q314567

SUMMARY

When you install Microsoft Project Central, a new virtual directory is created. From this new virtual directory, you can access your projects on the Web server.

In some situations, you may want to move an existing Microsoft Project Central virtual directory to a separate virtual server (Web site). This article explains how to move an existing Microsoft Project Central virtual directory to a separate virtual server.

MORE INFORMATION

To move an existing Microsoft Project Central virtual directory to a separate virtual server, follow these methods in the order in which they are presented.

NOTE: Because there are several versions of Microsoft Windows, the following steps may be different on your computer. If they are, see your product documentation to complete these steps.

Step 1: Create a New Virtual Server

  1. Log on to the server computer as Administrator.
  2. Start Internet Services Manager.
  3. In the Internet Information Services window, right-click *server name (where server name is the name of the server), point to New on the shortcut menu that appears, and then click Web Site.

    The Web Site Creation Wizard starts.
  4. In the Web Site Creation Wizard, click Next.
  5. In the Description box, type a description for the new Web site. For example, type ProjectCentral Site. Click Next.
  6. In the Enter the IP address to use for this Web site list, click the IP address that you want.

    NOTE: If you select (All Unassigned) in the IP address list, the virtual server responds to all IP addresses that are not assigned to other virtual servers. In effect, this Web site becomes the default Web site.
  7. If you do not want the virtual server to use port 80, which is the default port for Web sites, type the port that you want in the TCP port this web site should use box. For example, type 8080.

    NOTE: In order to configure multiple virtual servers on the same Web server computer, one of these three settings must be unique to each virtual server. For example, you can have multiple virtual servers that use the same IP address as long as a unique TCP port number is assigned to each of them. Do not assign a unique host header name to the virtual server, because unique host header names are unsupported by Microsoft Project Central.
  8. Click Next.
  9. In the Path box, type the path to the Web content folder for the new Web site. For example, to use the content from the Default Web Site, type drive:\InetPub\wwwroot (where drive is the drive on which Windows is installed).
  10. Click to select the Allow anonymous access to this Web site check box (if it is not already selected), and then click Next.
  11. On the Access Permissions page, click to select the following check boxes:

    Read
    Run scripts (such as ASP)
    Execute (such as ISAPI applications or CGI)

    Click to clear all other check boxes, click Next, and then click Finish.

    The new Web site is listed in the Internet Information Services window.
  12. If the new Web site is stopped, do one of the following:
    • If the new Web site uses the same IP address and TCP port as another Web site, stop the other Web site (right-click it, and then click Stop on the shortcut menu that appears), and then start the new Web site (right-click it, and then click Start on the shortcut menu that appears).
    • If the new Web site uses a configuration setting that is unique to all of the virtual servers (such as a unique IP address, host header, or TCP port), right-click it, and then click Start on the shortcut menu that appears.

Step 2: Create the MSADC Virtual Directory

  1. Start Internet Services Manager if it is not already running.
  2. Expand *server name (where server name is the name of the server).
  3. Right-click the new Web site that you created in the "Create a New Virtual Server" section of this article.
  4. On the shortcut menu that appears, point to New, and then click Virtual Directory.

    The Virtual Directory Creation Wizard starts.
  5. In the Virtual Directory Creation Wizard, click Next.
  6. In the Alias box, type MSADC, and then click Next.
  7. Click Browse, and then browse to the following folder, where drive is the drive on which Microsoft Windows is installed:

    drive:\Program Files\Common Files\System\msadc

  8. Click OK, and then click Next.
  9. On the Access Permissions page, click to select the following check boxes:

    Read
    Run scripts (such as ASP)
    Execute (such as ISAPI applications or CGI)

    Click to clear all other check boxes, click Next, and then click Finish.

    The new MSADC virtual directory is created.
For additional information about how to create a virtual directory, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

308135 HOW TO: Create a Virtual Directory

Create the ProjectCentral Virtual Directory

  1. Start Internet Services Manager if it is not already running.
  2. Expand *server name (where server name is the name of the server).
  3. Right-click the new Web site that you created in the "Create a New Virtual Server" section of this article.
  4. On the shortcut menu that appears, point to New, and then click Virtual Directory.

    The Virtual Directory Creation Wizard starts.
  5. In the Virtual Directory Creation Wizard, click Next.
  6. In the Alias box, type ProjectCentral, and then click Next.
  7. Click Browse, and then browse to the following folder, where drive is the drive on which Microsoft Project Central is installed:

    drive:\ProjectCentral

  8. Click OK, and then click Next.
  9. On the Access Permissions page, click to select the following check boxes:

    Read
    Run scripts (such as ASP)
    Execute (such as ISAPI applications or CGI)

    Click to clear all other check boxes, click Next, and then click Finish.

    The new ProjectCentral virtual directory is created.

Test the Virtual Directory

  1. Click Start, and then click Run.
  2. In the Open box, type http://server_name:port_number/projectcentral, where the following is true:

    • server_name is the name or IP address of the Web server computer.

      -and-
    • port_number is the TCP port number that you assigned to the new Web site. If you did not assign a unique TCP port number to the Web site, you may ignore this item.
    The following example illustrates this command line where a TCP port of 8080 has been assigned to the Default Web Site:

    http://server_name:8080/projectcentral

  3. Click OK.

    Microsoft Project Central starts in the browser window.

REFERENCES

For additional information about how to obtain the Microsoft Project 2000 training manual, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

282245 PRJ2000: Microsoft Project 2000 Training Manual

For additional information about how to install and customize Microsoft Project Central, see the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/project/project2000/maintain/prjnstl.mspx

Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:7/21/2006
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