Host multiple sites with one IP address? Host Headers?

[Ovatvvon]

Hello,
I have seen a little bit of documentation that you can assign multiple web sites through IIS with only one IP address by declaring different host header names. However, I can't find a whole lot on it, and messing around with it, I made no progress.

If anyone knows how I can do this, please please let me know! Thank you in advance.

-ovatvvon

 

[itguru]

Hi!
What exactly you wants to do? means wants to host diffrent sites with on one IP with diffrent DNS i.e.

http://www.ab.com

om 121.234.567.98 and

http://www.bc.com

on same IP 121.234.567.98? iis_guru@yahoo.com

 

[Ovatvvon]

That is correct....per say.
many different web sites using only one IP address, say

http://www.abc.com

and building.abc.com or even going with more than one domain name so one IP and

http://www.abc.com

and

http://www.xyz.com

and

http://www.toomany.com

etc.

-ovatvvon

 

[itguru]

Hi!

You have to register the domain first in second step you have use that redirect option i mean u can redirect the comming request to a specific IP on that IP if You have IIS 4.0 you can host many sites from the inetpub folder.
when a user will type

http://www.abc.com

this will re-direct the request to 121.234.567.98 on this IP here at c:\inetpub\abc\def
I hope it will help you if there is any problem in this i am here to help you. iis_guru@yahoo.com

 

[Ovatvvon]

Hey,
I figured out what the problem was. I had a few host headers configured within the dns server, and I believe that was conflicting with IIS. Now that I cleared that out, there doesn't seam to be a problem when I apply what you said. Thanks for your help!

-Ovatvvon

 

[whitehawk808]

I am having difficulty setting this up as well, how do you redirect?.

Thanks
Ted Fisher

 

[Junior1544]

what vertion of iis are you running, if it's 5.0 i can help
jhauge@jmjpc.net

 

[Ovatvvon]

To redirect to another IP, you select the "home directory" tab within IIS where you would specify a path on the local computer. However, in the list at the top, instead of selecting "A directory located on this computer", select "a redirection to a URL". Then type in your url in the text box, i.e. "

http://255.255.255.255".

One more thing, if the target site is on a port other than default (port: 80), you will need to specify that as part of the IP address. For instance, pretend you had

http://www.abc.com

on IP 255.255.255.255 on port 81. You'd type "

http://255.255.255.255:81"

in the url/text bar.

Make sense? Hope that helped!
-Ovatvvon

 

[whitehawk808]

I hate to be confused on this topic, but I am missing this one. I have IIS 4.0. I need to host multiple sites for example

http://www.site1.com

and

http://www.site2.com

I have registered the domains. Now I need to setup IIS. I believe I need to have different Host Headers because I have only one IP address and would like to only use port 80 so users don't have to append the port number. This is where I lose it. How do you setup IIS from here. Is there detailed instructions somewhere on the web?

Thanks in advance

Ted Fisher

 

[Ovatvvon]

Do you have a static IP? If so...on the DNS server (or whoever you have the domain names through...point them to your IP address.

Next, once you create the sites within IIS...go to the properties of that site, then on the web site tab, make sure your ip address is selected from the drop down menu, and the TCP Port is set to 80. Then click on "Advanced" button within the "web site" tab (the page you are currently on)...click on the ip address and port you are using (will most likely be only one option there), then click the "edit" button. The new window that opens will display your IP and Port number, and then will have a blank Host Header Name field.

In the host header field, type your web site domain name completely...example, if your site is site1.com, then type in the host header field, "

http://www.site1.com".

Then click ok, and then ok again and keep going out to set the options. Now, if you want the avialability for the user to see the same wite whether they type in

http://site1.com

OR

http://www.site1.com,

then instead of going out of all that, once you setup the site1.com, then click the "add" button, have the same IP and Port selected, however this time in the host header type

http://www.site1.com

instead of just site1.com. Now exit out of all that. Now when someone types in

http://site1.com

OR types

http://www.site1.com,

they will hit the same site. So now you have two items listed in the advanced section under the "web site" tab within the properties of the site you are editing.

Hope that makes sense and helps...if not, let me know, or contact me on MSN Messanger at UserID: jimbob550@hotmail.com

-Ovatvvon