Virtual Site

[Sarky78]

Hi

I have got my PC at home that I occasionally use for development when working from home. I need to set up a virtual website on this machine. This is so that I can use host headers. I am running W2K and IIS 5 is up and running, the

http://WWW service

is also installed and running. Do I have to be running W2K Server to be able to do this? I fear I do !

Thanks in advance !

 

[itguru]

Hi!

Yes you can do tis but you need a static IP for this purpose and a live internet connection.

Hope this will help. iis_guru@yahoo.com

 

[JohnYingling]

It is supposed to work on W2K Pro. I'm still using PWS on WME. I use localhost as the domamin name as specified in the Hosts file in C:\Windows. I don't know if that is what you need. I get away without a "live" connection being up.

# Copyright (c) 1998 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP stack for Windows98
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost

http://www.VBCompare.com

http://www.VBSortGen.com

 

[Sarky78]

Hi

It looks like itguru is right, I do not have a permanant internet connection (just a dial up) and my machine is stand alone, I have added an IP address to it, but i still don't get the option in IIS (where i need to assign a name alias to a website) to create a virtual site. I will drop Microsoft a line and see if they can give a definitive answer, and let you all know !

thanks for the help anyway !

 

[Galrahn]

You cannot have multiple virtual sites in W2K pro. You will have to use Server.

Raymond