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11-04-2009, 9:34 AM

DubOhio
Joined on 11-04-2009, 1:57 PM
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Host Header Routing - (NOT HOSTING MULTIPLE SITES ON ONE IIS SERVER)

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Here is a quick rundown of what I have and what I’m trying to do.

Server1: 192.168.2.2

Server2: 192.168.2.3

Router:

Internal IP: 192.168.2.1

External IP: 74.1.1.1

Website1: www.yo.com

Website2: www.yo2.com

Is there any hardware/software out there that can route host headers to physically different IIS server or is there a way to setup front end with multiple backend IIS Servers like exchange?

www.yo.com--->74.1.1.1--->192.168.2.2

www.yo.com--->74.1.1.1--->192.168.2.3

This is what I’m trying to accomplish. I don’t want something shady like hosting a website on a different port. How does a webhosting company accomplish this?

Thanks for any help!

11-04-2009, 9:48 AM In reply to

Rovastar
Joined on 03-13-2008, 10:00 AM
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Re: Host Header Routing - (NOT HOSTING MULTIPLE SITES ON ONE IIS SERVER)

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If I were you I would use load balancing technologies to createa web farm for your backend servers.

Often this is donevia hardware a network load balancer but you can you MS software with NLB (network loadbalancer) and the new ARR module for IIS 7 can do this too.

http://www.iis.net/extensions/ApplicationRequestRouting

http://www.iisportal.com

11-04-2009, 10:06 AM In reply to

DubOhio
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that looks like it might work. But i do have a few IIS6 Servers will this still route that traffic aswell or does this only work with IIS7 Server

11-04-2009, 2:48 PM In reply to

anilr
Joined on 05-23-2006, 6:13 PM
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Re: Host Header Routing - (NOT HOSTING MULTIPLE SITES ON ONE IIS SERVER)

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ARR will only run on IIS7 but it can definitely route to any http server (IIS6 or apache or whatever). You can either set it up as another server in front of your existing servers, or load it on one of your existing servers and have the router send all traffic to it and use url-rewrite rules in ARR to send only some of the hostnames along to the other hosts.

Anil Ruia
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11-04-2009, 2:57 PM In reply to

DubOhio
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are there any good step by steps to help me get this up and running? I followed what was on MSFT's site, and i now have the 'Server Farms' folder but when I click on it dont get any of the options that I see in the video on MSFT's site. To actualy do the HostHeader redirect. the screen is just blank...