Redirecting OWA default URL 1

[teters]

I am running Raptor 6.5 on a Windows 2000 machine. I am trying to set up OWA on our internal mail server (exchange 5.5 also on Windows 2000). How can I redirect the URL that someone puts in to the address bar? For example, a user opens IE and types "

http://mail.myservername.com"

- I want that rerouted to "

http://mail.myservername.com/exchange".

This seems simple enough but I cannot find where to do this. The reason for this is when you type "

http://mail.myservername.com"

it brings up my Intranet home page in all its glory. Is there something else that I'm missing in order to stop that from happening. Do I need to turn of Anonymous access? If so, where?
All help is appreciated.

Thanks.
teters

 

[mastergara]

This seems to be a question on setting up IIS and OWA. The only way I can see this relating to the functionality of the firewall is the DNS settings. If you want "

http://mail.myservername.com"

to resolve to another internal server, you should be able to put a host record for the appropriate machine hosting the site.

If "

http://mail.myservername.com"

and "

http://mail.myservername.com/exchange"

are on the same system (i.e. IP Address), then look into the functionality of redirects on the IIS system.

Also, as a suggestion: Since you are probably going to be using this to access your email from the outside world, you should look into setting up secure access (SSL over HTTP/HTTPS) on the IIS system, and creating the appropriate redirects on the firewall.

httpd for Raptor 6.5 does not allow the WebDAV verbs through, and it is usually a bad idea to pass the information across the wire in cleartext.

NOTE: SEF 7 supports the majority of the WebDAV verbs, but it is still a bad idea to have login information go across the net in cleartext.

Hope this helps!

-M