I just started looking at IIS on Windows10.
I have a stupid question. I added a binding to Default Web Site ("www.test.com") in IIS Manager.
I was expecting to see the default page when browsing to this url, but it took me instead to an actual existing page.
Can anyone explain me why?
If you've added www.test.com to your bindings, clients (like your web browser on the same system) still don't know that IIS hosts the site.
see this: Setting up a Host File - Faking URLs
This is useful when dealing with multiple sites:
Site 1:
test.com
www.test.com
www2.test.com
Site 2:
another.url.com
with just listening to a single IP, you cannot control which request ends up at which site, this is what the binding solves
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Hi everyone need your support with the following problem. Please do apologies if I confuse you in anyways with my explanation.
I have a add-on domain (example.com) pointed to a Godaddy Linux server, domain is also in the Godaddy same account.
The web application for "example.com" is a Laravel 5.6 based one, and the web app has 'Get' type search form which needs to be forwarded to another Windows IIS server's port with all the query strings where another web app is hosted. the action of the from will be similar to below.
Request => http://sub1.example.com/route/method?var=val1&var2=val2&var3=val3
From this point on-wards the application has to continue work from the IIS server with the subdomain, which mean I am not expecting any replies from this IIS server to the Linux server.
Its been advised to use the subdomain to mask the forwarding to the IIS server, so I did like above with sub1 sub-domain. This subdomain has to be forwarded to a server's port as I mentioned above, something similar to below.
http://sub1.example.com => http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:9596
I did tried with the Godaddy's default subdomain forwarding with masking, but the query strings are not being forwarded and shows "Destination Unknown" error.
In a online forum its been advised not to go with Godaddy's forwarding instead go with .htaccess to have more control.
Therefore any possible solutions or your support with the redirection with .htaccess from web application to the external web server's specific port along with the query strings would be a life saver.
Thank you in advance.
As per the GoDaddy support, the domain forwarding to a IP's port is not possible with the Shared hosting.
The support suggested to go-ahead with the VPS and configure.
Please do comment, if this is wrong statement!
Since I am using a host header filtering technique in my ASP.NET MVC application, I would like to prevent users from browsing directly to the IP address of my site, and force them to use the FQDN. Is this possible?
I see similar SO question here with no answer
You can do this with Bindings in IIS (assuming you're using IIS): https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731692(v=ws.10).aspx
Open IIS
Right click your site
Click "Edit Bindings"
Edit the entries (http/https) to include a "Host Name" (ex. "YourSite.com", "sub.YourSite.com", etc...)
An alternative would be to force a redirect to the FQDN in your code. You should be able to determine the url using a ServerVariable: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httprequest.servervariables(v=vs.110).aspx
You can add another Website in IIS, locate it to an empty directory to make it don't do anything useful, use 80 port but don't bind any hostnames. In this case, who access your server by IP directly would just hit this Website, they won't bother you anymore.
Or maybe you can put some helpful webpages in this website to help your client visit by domain name correctly.
I have a Windows Server 2012, with IIS 8 installed. I have multiple websites there. I also have the Default Website.
When I create a new website like www.abc.com and abc.com, it works fine. However, when a customer enters an invalid subdomain to abc.com (a subdomain definition that is not actually there), like xyz.abc.com, it automatically redirects to my Default Website which is a landing page.
Instead, I want to return a custom 404 page from IIS. Is that possible?
Thanks.
Your DNS should be taking care of that. If xyz.abc.com doesn't exist in the zone, no browser should be coming even close to IIS.
That is, unless you have a wildcard record configured. It sounds like you might.
Give it a look.
I have an application that is currently deployed (ex. www.example.com ). However, now we have a "secure" subdomain, which will take all of the requests that need to be encrypted (ex. secure.example.com). The site that is at www.example.com is currently mapped to C:\inetpub\example.com\wwwroot\, and I've mapped secure.example.com to C:\inetpub\example.com\wwwroot\secure.
However, since secure.example.com was setup as a new website within the IIS Manager, when the secure site is visited, it displays an error since there is no web.config associated with this website; however, this is the way I want it since I want this to be a part of the application that is in the parent directory.
I think what you really meant to do was just right click on the web site for example.com and edit the bindings. In there you can add host names to that site.
Make sure you add them for port 443 which is SSL.
Map both the IIS virtual directories/web sites to the same directory, and check that are both using the same IIS application name.
(Not tried this, but can't recall seeing anything to say it would not work.)
I've got three web sites each with its own domain going to my one Windows Server 2008 IIS 7.0 web server.
example1.com
example2.com
example3.com
The site bindings for each:
IIS 7.0 Site Bindings example1.com http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/4215/example1pf4.gif
IIS 7.0 Site Bindings example2.com http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/2567/example2xx0.gif
IIS 7.0 Site Bindings example3.com http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/8186/example3rh9.gif
When I navigate to example1.com, then I see my example1 web site.
When I navigate to example2.com, then I see my example2 web site.
But, when I navigate to example3.com, I see my example1 web site--not the example3 web site I expect.
What's going on? Why might example2.com work, but example3.com fail?
Issue resolved!
I removed and then recreated the example3.com web site within IIS and it's now working.
I didn't change anything. It either originally had a simple typo or the act of recreating it just happened to fix a hiccup within IIS.
It's stopped working again after I setup additional redirects within IIS forcing web sites to use sub domains:
http://example1.com/ redirects to http://www.example1.com/
I've again removed and then recreated the example3.com web sites; I've reset IIS; I've rebooted the server. It's still not working correctly.
I've figured it out. It's not an IIS issue. It's a DNS issue.
The example3.com traffic is for some reason directed to a web server at a different company. THEY serve up a page with only an HTML frame on it. That frame loads a page with the address http://example3.example1.com. That's what I need to handle on MY web server.
I would validate that you have example3.com pointing to the proper location on disk. Also ensure that it is not stopped.
The fallback to example1 is due to the binding entry with no header value.