How to do it...

1. Open Server Manager on Windows Server 2016. Click on the Tools menu and open IIS Manager.
2. Expand the IIS server (WIN2016IIS). We get the listed application pools and sites.
3. Click on mysite.com from the connections pane, and you will see the properties of mysite.com in the Actions pane. We get the Basic Settings... and Advanced Settings...:

1. Click on Basic Settings..., and you will get the Edit site property displayed.

1. The Edit Site window shows you the selected website and your assigned application pool.
2. The Physical path is the path of the website application files, located in the wwwroot folder. You can customize the Connect as... option and test your settings to check whether it is working or not in a browser.
3. Now let's move on to configure the Advance Settings... of the selected website.
4. Click on mysite.com. In the Actions pane, you get the Advanced Settings... option. Click on Advanced Settings..., and you will get the advanced settings window:

1. Advanced Settings has four groups of settings: General, Behavior, Failed Request Tracing, and Limits.
2. In General, you can change the Application pool, website ID, website Physical Path, Physical Path Credentials Logon Type, and Preload Enabled.
3. In Behavior, you change Enabled protocols, which are either http or https.
4. You can configure the settings of Failed Request Tracing. Directory is where you store your tracing information log, tracing service enabled as true or false, and maximum number of trace files.
5. You can also set the Limits of access to your website on the basis of connection timeout, maximum bandwidth per second, maximum concurrent connections, and maximum URL segments.