websites not loading properly externally

[TheStressFactor]

Hello all,

Here is the situation.

We have a public website called

http://www.pennoni.com.

We have a subwebof that site called

http://www.pennoni.com/po.

po is a subweb which is our employee online site.

Internally the website loads as

http://www/po

as our webserver internally is called www. When logged in internally the site works perfectly fine. It is the default home page for each user. The secuerity for this website is set to Intergrated Mode.

Externally the page does not load at all. This seems to be only happening on laptops that access the website both externally and internally. Home user p.c.'s seem to work just fine.

Our hope and goal was externally all users could access the site and be prompted for there network username and password. Internally we would want them to be able to get right in since they are logged into the network....can this be done?

I was messing around and changed the security to basic authentication and with my laptop externally I got prompted for my username and password and logged in fine. But then internal users sitll get prompted for there username and password. I then tried checking both Integrated and Basic and Internally it worked the way it was supposed to but externally I was getting an HTTP 500 Internal Server error.

Any Ideas?

Thank you.

Patrick

 

[Solo4357]

You might try setting up a DNS server (or a forward lookup zone on the current server) internally for pennoni.com and resolve the

http://www,mail,

etc to the internal addresses. That way,

http://www.pennoni.com

works no matter if their internal or external.

Not knowing how the site works, it's possible that the names are hardcoded for

http://www rather

than

http://www.pennoni.com

and that's why it won't work externally. If setting up the DNS inside so

http://www.pennoni.com

points to the internal address doesn't work, then it might be some config setting somewhere in the web site that has

http://www listed

where it should have

http://www.pennoni.com

One portal I worked with stored the name in the database and allowed multiple names to be stored, so I had to add www,

http://www.dkdkd.com,

etc...