How to change the IP address?

[bnymk]

Hello all:

We have a website that is developed using SharePoint Portal 2003 and SQL 2000 as a back end database. Everything is working so far but now we are faced with changing the IP address of the website but the FQDN will remain the same. I can go ahead and make the change of the IP address in IIS6.0 but where should I also change the IP address in sharePoint portal for the site? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

"Behind every great fortune there lies a great crime", Honore De Balzac

 

[dlongnecker]

Without more information; I'd assume that just changing the IP address in your DNS records and IIS would suffice--clients would query DNS and be directed to the new IP address as registered in DNS.

If you you have links within the site and application that specify the IP address rather than the FQDN, then those references within those apps would need changed.

Regards,

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David R. Longnecker
Web Developer
CCNA, MCSA, Network+, A+
Management Information Services
Wichita Public Schools, USD 259

 

[bnymk]

Thanks for the response. My concern is the fact that I have site displayed on the SharePoint Administration page and how I can get that to change to the new IP address that I will be adding on IIS.

"Behind every great fortune there lies a great crime", Honore De Balzac

 

[dlongnecker]

Bnymk-

Let me see if I understand... by site on the SPSAdmin page, meaning that one of the virtual server listings? Or you manually edited that page and added a listing to a site?

Sorry, grasping at straws at the moment... perhaps possible (if no security risk to you), to post a snapshot of the screen... or the breadcrumb to get to it.

Thanks!

-David

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David R. Longnecker
Web Developer
CCNA, MCSA, Network+, A+
Management Information Services
Wichita Public Schools, USD 259

 

[bnymk]

David:

On the SPS admin page, there is a section that says "create Portal Site". In that section, I have created a website that has its own IP address. That's the IP address that I want to change. I can change it in IIS but was just wandering, even after I remove that IP address from the Server network properties and assign a new one, will SP will still dispaly the old IP address eventhough now the IP address for the site has been replaced? Wanted to know if SharePoint Portal is smart enough to update the config database with the new IP address and display the new IP on the Admin page?

Thanks.

"Behind every great fortune there lies a great crime", Honore De Balzac

 

[dlongnecker]

Bnymk -

Sorry I haven't gotten back to you--the flu has been keeping me pretty down this week.

Is that an edit drop down for those sites; e.g. can you drop down and go to the properties of that portal site, then edit the IP?

Honestly, I've never setup another site in there beyond the primary portal site... to verify, I'd need to just try it in a virtual environment. Anyone else have any suggestions?

-David

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David R. Longnecker
Web Developer
CCNA, MCSA, Network+, A+
Management Information Services
Wichita Public Schools, USD 259

 

[bnymk]

Hey David:

Thanks for responding and hope you r feeling better now. I actually found something that might work. When I made the site to use a SSL and try to access the properties of the site using the Admin page it asked me to upgrade the site since it is now using https protocol instead of the regular http. So I found a utility in the stsadmn.exe which I ran and changed the protocol to https.

The utility that I ran in the command line is as follows and I'm hoping that when I change the IP address, it would make the changes in the Administration pages

stsadmn.exe -o upgrade -URL

http://mywebsite.com

"Behind every great fortune there lies a great crime", Honore De Balzac

 

[bnymk]

sorry typo mistake.

It should be:

stsadm.exe -o upgrade -url

http://mywebsite.com

"Behind every great fortune there lies a great crime", Honore De Balzac