Configuring the web server and IIS

We should now connect to our web server and set up our web application within IIS.

Note

As we said earlier, configuring a web application can be either a very easy or an insanely complex task, depending on a number of things, such as caching, load balancing, CPU optimization, database load, and security issues. Although the most common issues will be briefly handled within this chapter, it's advisable to follow a dedicated guide to properly handle each one of them.

Installing the ASP.NET Core module for IIS

We might think that IIS is the ideal platform for hosting ASP.NET Core applications, as it always has been since the first release of ASP.NET. As a matter of fact, it's not that ASP.NET Core web applications run via the highly optimized Kestrel server. Whenever we choose to host one of them with IIS, we basically need it to act as a reverse proxy for the underlying Kestrel server.

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This is confirmed by the official documentation at the following URL: https...