How to point your web applications to the WFE server

Should be obvious you would have thought, but alas no.

I set up the farm (3 servers as described in previous posts), and started creating the web applications for the SSPs & websites.

Note: I have a directory set up on the DEV02 (WFE) under E:\MOSS\Webs to store all Web Apps.

When creating the app pool I could not point my web app path at DEV02 E:\MOSS\Webs; SP would only accept DEV01 F:\MOSS\Webs.

Checking on the file systems and IIS app pools all the apps i created were sitting on DEV01 (App Server) rather than DEV02 (WFE).

To fix this:

1. Turn off the WSS Web Application Service on all servers other than WFE servers.
   Note: If you turn off the web app service on a server, the web apps you have already created that reside on that server will be deleted.
   
2. Select Create New Web Application.
3. Assign a description; port 80 & host header.
4. Set the path to DEV02 E:\MOSS\Webs
5. Assign App Pool name & DB name etc
6. Create.
7. Check IIS & files in DEV02 & E:\MOSS\Webs

The app should now be hosted on DEV02 the WFE.