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 2008 database
see this Knowledge Base 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.aspxArticle ID: 624, Created On: 8/14/2009, Modified: 4/21/2011