Set up "subdomain only" site?

[csteinhilber]

We have an intranet that I'd like to be able to allow internal users to access via

http://intranet/...

rather than the full

http://intranet.somedomainname.com/...

We run our own DNS servers (one internal, one external). And our IIS currently serves more than one domain (one of which is somdomainname.com), each with many subdomains (one of which is intranet.somedomainname.com), all on a bank of only two IPs. I tried setting up internal DNS for "intranet" (didn't seem like the server liked that, by the way), but I'm unsure what more, if anything, I need to do in IIS.

When I flushed my DNS cache,

http://intranet/

didn't respond, so I know I'm doing something wrong.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
-Carl

 

[mrdenny]

The first test should be can you ping intranet. If you can, and you get an IP back then that means that DNS is working correctly.

In IIS you will want to add a host header for intranet as well as intranet.somedomainname.com so that IIS will process both.

(I'm working on the assumption that this is for internal as this wont work for external DNS.)

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[csteinhilber]

Thank you mydenny.

Is there a way to add a host header in IIS separate from creating a "site"? Or are they one and the same?

Thanks again!


-Carl

 

[mrdenny]

You create a website, then you assign a host header to that website.

Denny
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