Exchange 2003 OWA and subdomains using port 80

[ikhan42]

Hi everyone,

I have a friend who has asked me a question that I have been trying to rack my head around to find an anwser for him but all I have successfully done is given myself a migraine .

He is running an exchange server on a high end port # like 30000 and is also looking at setting up a web site for business I think. Now from what he has told me he is using IIS and is sick of having to go to his email server by typing

http://www.xyz.com:30000/exchange

so here is what he is trying to do.

He has setup a sub domain with his DNS provider ie webmil.xyz.com and want to be able to go directly to that sub domain to chek his emails ie go to

http://www.webmail.xyz.com

and his OWA sauthentication screen starts up using port 80.

Now here is the cruncher on the same machine (server) he want to run his website so when people go to

http://www.xyz.com

they will see his business web site and when he goes to webmail.xyz.com he can see his mail.

Now as far as I can remember it isnt possible to use the same port number multiple times on the same machine or is it.

What I was thinking was he could run virtual hosts for each of those url and run his own DNS server and this should work. But now I am thinking is this actually possible.

Would he be berret of running the two services on different machines to achieve what he is trying to do?

Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated ?

Cheers
ikhan42

 

[bobsa32]

You can run multiple websites on the same port on the same machine as long as you set the host headers up. Open up IIS and on the website click advanced next to the ip address, remove any blank entries for port 80 and add new ones with a host header:

xyz.com
webmail.xyz.com

etc, etc

 

[58sniper]

Well, he should be using SSL on port 443 for Exchange. If not, his email is being transmitted in the clear (and a pile of other security concerns). If he set that up, he could go to

https://webmail.xyz.com/exchange

and get right to it.

He could make it even easier by redirecting the home page to /exchange so that the URL would be

https://webmail.xyz.com

Simple, really.

Pat Richard MVP
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