Re: Hosting multiple websites using prefixes (host headers)?
- From: "Paul Duncan" <paulduncan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 00:15:04 -0600
Hi Jim and thanks for the response.
It was great to know that this is being done by someone and therefore is
possible.
Even though you tried to make it as easy for me as possible with numbered
steps I still stumbled somewhere - sorry.
Step 1 - I created a site in IIS for my new site. It had existed
previously as a sub folder on my default website (eg
www.mydomain.com/friend which works fine) and I created the new site with
the home directory as this same folder. I'm hoping I can just keep
creating sites like this.
Step 2 - I created a new destination set similar to friend.mydomain.com
including a path /friend/* where the files have always been.
Step 3 - I created a new web publishing rule that uses the new destination
set and passes the original host header. Curiously here the "Action" tab
has the field asking what web server to redirect the request to. In
SBS2000 I can only get publishing to work with my full server name
servername.mydomain.com here (notice I used my internet domain name as my
local domain name too). In the Shinder tutorial the server machine IP
address is used and in the Brainbuzz.com/Grasdel tutorial the web
servername is used (www.mydomain.com). Is there a DNS issue here for me.
Step 4 - Do you mean my Internet Registrar DNS. If so I have created an A
record for friend.mydomain.com pointing to my external IP address the same
as my default web site. If you mean my local DNS, then I'm a bit thin on
experience here - I have depended on the default DNS setup in SBS2000 to
work 'out of the box'.
I would be very grateful if you could clarify these points for me. When I
try to hit the new site I get the 403 Forbidden ISA error - Denied URL
(12202). I tried restarting IIS and the web proxy service but no luck.
Thanks heaps (I could screen grab my configurations and send them to you
privately as an attachment if that would help - and isn't stretching the
friendship)
Paul
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