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• 02-09-2009, 11:00 PM

  jeffleese2 Joined on 12-24-2006, 9:08 PM Posts 14

  URL fidelity Reply Contact I have a situation where I host several sites on IIS 6, using different ports. The problem is my DNS registrar won't allow the use of a port number, but I wanted to keep the registrar, so I began developing a workaround. The DNS registrar, for a fictional site called shingle.com, will only allow an ip address or another url. I gave it the url of a webhop, let's call it shingle.hop.com and at the webhop service, I redirect shingle.hop.com to the ip address of my server. The reason for using the intervening webhop is that this service allows me to use the port number, so I can specify 80.222.15.26:81 for example. Having done this, I can call up shingle.com and it takes me to 80.222.15.26:81 The problem is that I've lost the url shingle.com. Are there any approaches to configuring IIS so that it displays the url name I want (shingle.com) rather than the IP (80.222.15.26:81 ) ? Can one approach this through configuring the hosted site? or can one write code to systematically rename the url posted back to the browser's address bar? Thanks!

• 02-10-2009, 7:34 AM

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  tomkmvp Joined on 03-20-2003, 6:27 AM Central NJ Posts 6,171	Re: URL fidelity Reply Contact Why are you using different ports?  As long as you have different names, you can use the host header feature. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324287 Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/690/408 http://www.bluesrepublic.org/

• 02-10-2009, 7:24 PM

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  jeffleese2 Joined on 12-24-2006, 9:08 PM Posts 14	Re: URL fidelity Reply Contact Thanks alot, this saved me lots of unecessary effort! I also made a mistake, in that I have IIS 7. The same thing works there, just by setting multiple bindings.