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Re: Host Headers and DNS settings

chetanrp — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:15:30 GMT

Hello All,

I have windows 2003 server. In IIS i created one website as website1 of. header website1. Means in IIS i have two websites one is default web site and another one is website1.

On default website one application is intalled and exposed on net using domain for ex. www.site1.co.uk

Now i want to set another application on website1 and need to exposed this application on net as www.site2.co.uk. I created this domain but still this domain points to default website of IIS not to website1.

Please tell me the setting which i need to set on IIS and on DNS.

Re: Host Headers and DNS settings

tomkmvp — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:35:24 GMT

1. You would also need a corresponding CNAME entry - I have never tried this with "4 levels" though.

2. Exactly!

Re: Host Headers and DNS settings

mabrito — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:25:04 GMT

Ha yeah it just needed its time. Two more quick question, it only works when I do webmail.myDomain.org, is there a way to make it work if the person was to type www.webmail.myDomain.org? Try making another host header value with www.webmail.myDomain.org and didnt work.

Can this CNAME trick work with any Host value? Say if I was to make a CNAME entry called test and then point that to @ and make a website with a host name of test.myDomain.org, would that work?

Thanks for your help though Tom, it's greatly appreciated!!

Re: Host Headers and DNS settings

tomkmvp — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:53:40 GMT

1. Page not found or server not found? The former means it worked but something is misconfigured in IIS, the latter may mean that enough time has not passed for the DNS change to propagate through the internet (most likely reason). Give it an hour or more ...

2. As long as the godaddy DNS is correct this won't matter.

Re: Host Headers and DNS settings

mabrito — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:32:36 GMT

Ok, so I pointed the CNAME record called "webmail" to @. @ does point to my public IP address, and does work because when I type myDomain.org,it does go to the Default site but when I type webmail.myDomain.org, it goes no where and get a page cant be found message. Do I have to do anything else that I may be missing?

On this server that is hosting IIS, I also have Active Directory/DNS setup. The name I gave the domain controller is completely different from the domain name I own. I gave the domain controller a name scheme of name.local. Im not sure if this is even relavent but I thought Ill mention it just in case.

Re: Host Headers and DNS settings

tomkmvp — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:48:32 GMT

You're almost there ... The CNAME record you should have is Host "webmail" Points To "@" and there should be an A (Host) record for @ that Points To your server's IP address.

Re: Host Headers and DNS settings

mabrito — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:39:59 GMT

Alright this is what I did. In IIS I gave the second website a host header value of webmail.myDomain.org and kept it on port 80. Then for the first website/Default website I gave it multiple host header values of myDomain.org and www.myDomain.org. So when you click the Advance button next to IP Address you see two entries.

Then I logged into GoDaddy and found the webmail CNAME record and changed its value to webmail.myDomain.org.

Still not working. Did I do your steps right? Miss something?

Re: Host Headers and DNS settings

tomkmvp — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:49:06 GMT

On godaddy, setup a CNAME record for webmail. In your IIS, setup a second website and assign it the webmail.mydomain.org host header name. Go back to the default/original site and give that the mydomain.org and www.mydomain.org host header names.

Re: Host Headers and DNS settings

ma_khan — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:35:46 GMT

I believe goDaddy already has that enabled if you are in the right plan... you might want to take this up with their support ....

Re: Host Headers and DNS settings

mabrito — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:22:24 GMT

How do you go about setting a subdomain up? I know what they are, just quite dont know how to set them up.

Re: Host Headers and DNS settings

ma_khan — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:53:29 GMT

well in your case I think you can work with sub-domains...

Host Headers and DNS settings

mabrito — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:08:53 GMT

Im using Server 03 Standard Edition which means ill be using IIS 6.0. I want to set up host headers. I have my main website and then I have a mail server that also has its own web interface. Basically im trying to have them both use port 80 and be able to access my website by typing in myDomain.org and access my mail interface by typing webmail.myDomain.org. I hear this can easily be done with host headers. Im just confused on setting up the DNS of them.

Right now I am abel to access the web interface by typing in myDomain.org:9998, since I changed the port its on.

If it helps, GoDaddy is the service im using to host my domain name.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!