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Configure IIS for Internal/External website.

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ScottishFencer

ScottishFencer

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Hello there,

The company I am working with is currently moving from its current website (inhouse) to an externally hosted website. We own our domain and I've already asked our DNS provider to change the existing record to point to the new IP address. So far so good.

I still have the old IP address with the webserver still hosting the old site (just in case).

The main reason I have kept it open is twofold:

We have external contractors who use a web app we provide.
Part of the site was the company's Intranet.

What I want to know is this:

I have provided the contractors with the current url (in the form of and notified the intranet users that the intranet is still available at It isn't very user friendly...

I would like the users to just be able to type in "Intranet" in their browser and go straignt there. I would like to type " for the external users. I suppose I will have to register a new domain for them.
We are using IIS 5 and I am no sure how I go about doing this.

FYI I have just started with this company and the manager left to get a better job. I have no one else to bounce ideas off.

I'm pretty new to configuring IIS - and maybe this isn't the correct way to approach this situation. I would appreciate any advice that members could offer.
 
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Have you looked into configuring your clients to use an internal DNS server for name resolution. That way they could resolve an internal domain or alias like locally. The DNS server can forward requests to your ISP DNS server for all other lookups. External users would use public DNS to resolve a real domain that points to your public IP.
 
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You could ask your DNS provider to add an additional A Record going to the IP address of your localserver called webapp

Then people could goto
If you wanted people to goto you could make an HTML page to redirect the user so;

<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript">
var time = null
function move() {
window.location = '}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<body onload="timer=setTimeout('move()',1)">
</body>
</html>

Put this is
When a user goes to /webapp (regardless of where they are) it will redirect them back to your local server.

It should hopefully cut out the amount of users going 'i cant see the webapp!!'

Hope this helps.

I wish someone would just call me Sir, without adding 'Your making a scene'.

Rob
 
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