configuring DNS / IIS for multisite access on LAN

[miq]

hi,

I want to configure IIS to allow access to multiple sites for LAN users. Hosting on a single machine how can LAN clients access multiple sites. One way is to use

localhost/directoryname1
localhost/directoryname2

is their anyway they can access sites by using host names like

site1
site2
or

http://www.site1.com

http://www.site2.com

what should header host section contains for enabling domain based access.

bye
miq

 

[Serbtastic]

Your host headers should be site1 and

http://www.site1.com

for the first site, and site2 and

http://www.site2.com

for the second site.

Then, on your internal DNS server, you should have records that point site1,

http://www.site1.com,

site2 and

http://www.site2.com

to the IP address of your IIS server.

 

[miq]

hi,

I want to test multisite functionality on local system before going to production environment. Can i do this without any public ip address and registered domain name.

bye
miq

 

[miq]

hie,

I was using tow different zone for defining these sites. But when i created BNS entries in a single zone, it worked.

I implemented

http://sitename

scheme. I don't have public IP address and registered domain name that is why i didn't try

http://www.sitename.com

technique. I think it won't work without public IP and registered domain name. Am i right?

Also, Host [A] configuration in DNS server doen't allow "." so, i was unable to set Host name to

http://www.sitename.com.

I used following configuraton:

IN DNS
======
zone name = name of domain
host name = site1
host name = site2

IN IIS
======
ip address : all unasigned (for both sites)
port : 80 ( for both sites)
host header for site1 = site1
host header for site2 = site2

IN Browser
===========

http://site2

http://site2

What are the recommendations for zone naming conventions?
Does the zone name should be the name of domain in which DNS server exist?

 

[GWINTO]

Anybody able to work this out?

We have 2 internal sites

http://www.site1.co.uk

and

http://www.site2.co.uk,

site2's directory folder is inside site1 (ie.

http://wwwroot/site1/site2),

it is not practicle to move the site2 folder due to the size of it.

Host headers, documents, and directory folders are configured appropriatley, site1 uses index.htm, site2 uses default.htm.

When you type

http://www.site1.co.uk

all is ok, when you type

http://www.site2.co.uk

the frame set for site 1 opens with both frames showing Page cannot be found, however when you enter

http://www.site2.co.uk/default.htm

it works fine.

As previously mentioned, all host headers, documents and home directory folders are as they should be.


Another geek
CCNA MCP

 

[GWINTO]

I've sorted it, although the sites were set up independatley Site2 was holding 2 different configurations, one set from the website pointing to the directory and one set inherited from the parent directory (site1), by changing the documents listing on the folder within site1 - that site2 points to, to match those for the site2 web site config (did all that make sense!) it works fine.

Somehow it was finding the directory ok and then using the inherited permissions and not what was set as the site permissions

Another geek
CCNA MCP