SharePoint Host Header

[joesenna]

Hi All,

New to SharePoint and having an issue with the host header. In central administration SharePoint gives an option for configuring a host header and they explicitly suggest controlling SharePoint host headers through Central Administration and not IIS so I know I am in the correct place.

I am trying to configure our SharePoint

http://servername:8181/sitename

to be accessible internally to our company by typing in

http://sitename.

I would like the remianing pages to keep the URL path of

http://sitename/subsite/subsubsite

etc......Each time I make the change and attempt to load

http://sitename

I get a page not found return.

Does anyone know how I can achieve what I am attempting here? Thanks in advance!

 

[smithgj]

I am having a similar problem!

The full URL is

http://servername:port/sites/SiteName

and want to use

http://Sitename

I tried the following without success:

1. Added host header Identity in IIS advavced properties
IP Address Port Host Header value
Default 80 SiteName

2. Added DNS Alias entry (in Forward Lookup Zones)
Name Type Data
Site Name Alias(CNAME) servername.domainname

3. Added

http://sitename

to IE7 security intranet zone

Receive IE7 404 error, Have I missed a step in Sharepoint?

regards
smithgj

 

[jshurst]

What version of SharePoint are you using?

J

 

[smithgj]

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, on WS2003 ENT, SQLServer 2005, ISA 2004

TIA
regards
smithgj

 

[jshurst]

Did you set up your Alternate Access Paths?

If not then go to Operations->Alternate Access Mappings in SharePoint Administration.

J

 

[smithgj]

The Public URL fror the web application is:

http://servername:2020,

however the site collection URL is:
http:/servername:2020/sites/sitename

In the Alternate Access Mappings I set up an Internal Url

http://sitename

pointing to the Public URL

http://servername:2020

I still get the IE7 404 Error, finds the web site not the web page.

Should the website collection be created in the

http://servername:2020

root Virtual Directory

BTW Thru the browser i can only open the website with the full http:/servername:2020/sites/sitename URL

Should the website collection be created in the

http://servername:2020

root Virtual Directory(there is only one sharepoint site in the collection)

regards
smithgj

 

[jshurst]

I believe that you are correct in that it should be created in the root virtual directory.

J