I'm trying to host the web application through IIS7 and assigning an Host Name for accessing it.I have an Static IP assigned to my system.
Added an Static IP as well 127.0.0.1 along with host name in etc file and nothing worked out.
For example : If test.com is my Host Name and if i type test.com in browser it should redirect to my local website which i have hosted in IIS7. But it's referring to Online(Internet) and opening some other hosted site
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I am hosting my own website on a Proliant Rack server using Internet Information Services. I have configured everything; port forwards, IIS, and also my Content Management System, Joomla. I have also registered a domain, www.example.com (not the real domain obviously) with godaddy. I have also gone into proliant iLO and I have set the server FQDN to www.example.com. Finally, I forwarded the domain in godaddy to my public ip. However, when I enter in the URL (www.example.com) into a browser (outside of my network), it simply shows my IP address. My host file is as follows:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 example.com
127.0.0.1 www.example.com
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
You need to add a site and bind its host name to your domain. Otherwise, IIS doesn't know what the domain point to.
How do i map my dns(www.mydomain.com) to my website which is hosted on my virtual machine.
Things i already done.
Created virtual machine in Azure.
Added endpoint on public port 80, private port 80
Website hosted on IIS, and can access via localhost (inside virtual machine) and even via http:// ipaddress/sitename/ (outside of virtual machine)
I already have a DNS name in godaddy.
Also if i have more than one website hosted on my IIS, how do i map to corresponding domains.
Now you need to create DNS record for your VM.
See how to do that at http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/680/managing-dns-for-your-domain-names
You have got two alternatives here:
Create A record (DNS name to IP, e.g. subdomain.example.com -> your VM VIP).
Public Virtual IP (VIP) adress can be found in the VM configuration on manage.windowsazure.com, on the right pane.
Create CNAME record (DNS name to another DNS name, e.g. subdomain.example.com -> VM-Name.cloudapp.net)
DNS Name of your VM can also be found in the VM configuration, on the same right pane.
After that, set appropriate Host Name (e.g. subdomain.example.com) in IIS site binding so that you can reuse the same port (80) for other sites, binding different Host Names for them.
If you need your site to response for localhost or other DNS name, just add it as another binding (see screenshot).
I want to host a site on local IIS 7.5 for internal testing. But I want people can access over the internet.
For this on my rackspace server, I have created an "A" record with subdomain.domainName.com and pointed my static IP address to it.
In IIS I have created a self-signed certificated with *.domainname.com that it can be used to multiple sites.
Now, i have published a site to a local directory and in IIS I have created a site with host name the same domain for which I have created an "A" record.
I have added http and https bindings with port 80 and 443 with the same host name.
But still my site is not working.
The error I am getting is "This webpage is not available"
Can any one help me?
Resolved it my self.
I was missing Port Forwarding in my router software for HTTPS.
In my web-application, each HTTP request is automatically be converted to HTTPS. And I forgot to forward Port 443's request to the machine to which I have set the static IP Address and DNS.
After adding that port forwarding record to the router's software my application is working fine over internet.
I am unsure Whether both DNS server and Host file are the same or different.
I Hosted an application in IIS and created A host name as website1.domain.com and tried to browse it and it didn't work.
When searching on net i found that we need to make entry in DNS server or Host file.
As in most of the sites that I saw mentioned DNS server or host file. I am unsure Whether the both are same or they both are different.
A hosts file is used by Operating Systems to manually specify the IP addresses for specific domains/subdomains - think of it as an override.
DNS however is a server - think of it as a registry - that keeps track of records pertaining to domains, such as A records, MX records etc.
For the purposes of a local test site, an entry in your hosts file would be sufficient, however for a live site, a DNS entry relating to the domain you wish to have your site hosted on would be required.
Choosing which to use comes down to a few things. Does the server upon which your hosting the site use its own DNS server, i.e. a DNS server on the same network, which the connections to the server will be using as well? Does the domain name the site uses have its nameserver set to one that is externally available (i.e. 123-reg.co.uk). If either of these cases are true, you could probably use a DNS server.
If not, is the server hosting the site running on the same machine as the client that will be viewing the site? If so, you can probably use a hosts file, pointing your domains to the localhost IP of 127.0.0.1, ensuring the domains match the bindings in IIS.
Dns server is a server that will help to resolve dns names. ie when you type google.com in your browser , the name will be passed to the dns server provided by your isp. then it will be resolved to ip address by the dns server and your request will be routed to the google ip address by isp network. host file is different one. if you add www.mydomian.com entry in your host file and map it to an ip address 192.168.0.1 then your computer will check ion your host file when you type www.mydomain.com, whether there is any entry for mydomain.com in your host file, and if exists it will be routed to that ip address. in case if there is dns server and you set that server ip in your hnetwork configuration in your pc, then all the domain name request will be sent to that dns server(if there is no host entry exists)
I am having an issue getting an IIS 7.5 website to answer when I connect to it using an IP address.
I have a Win2008 Server set up with IIS 7.5. It has only one IP address bound to it (10.10.10.10), and IIS listens on it just fine. I have IIS hosting two websites: defaultsite and mysite. Both of these two are necessary to be present. (To be fair, I have many more sites, but 2 will simplify things.)
Defaultsite is your typical IIS default site and has an IIS binding of "*:80:"
I want to access "mysite" via the DNS name but also the public IP address 1.1.1.1. So I've added the appropriate bindings:
":80:1.1.1.1"
":80:mysite.com"
My DNS and load balancer are moving traffic just fine to the IIS server. Everything works fine when hitting the server via "mysite.com" and I get the defaultsite if I try other ways to get to the server.
The problem is when I use 1.1.1.1 to get to the server, I get there, but I'm still sent over to the "defaultsite" rather than "mysite." My IIS logs and the file contents I retrieve verify this behavior.
Any ideas on how to get an IP address set as the host header on a site binding? (Searching for this situation is vexing; since all my key terms are present any time you work with host headers/bindings.)
Remove the binding for *.80 from the default site and make it respond to 10.10.10.10 and then your other site will get picked up when you type the 1.1.1.1 site. IIS is responding to the request but the rule states 'If any site comes through on port 80, respond to the default site'. The DNS name works because you are going by name and the lookup is not there on the default site.