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.
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Currently I have a https website setup locally on the Azure VM
with a custom hostname : <websitename>.<domainname>.com and bound to the localhost 127.0.0.2
in the hosts.etc on port 443
Consider example hostname as web.microsoft.com
Website bindings in IIS are
type:https
hostname:web.microsoft.com
port:443
IP Address:127.0.0.2
Hosts.etc
127.0.0.2 web.microsoft.com
In order to access it locally on the VM itself https://web.microsoft.com/admin/login.aspx works fine.
Port 443 is open on the Azure VM and inbound firewall rule is set in windows to allow connections on 443
If I try to access it outside of the network using the public IP address this doesn't work
eg https://45.60.200.110/admin/login.aspx.
I have other non-https websites which work fine and can be accessed through the public IP ,only difference is they are not having hostname in the IIS website bindings.
Am I missing something or do I need to make some additional config?
That's the problem.
The customized hostname cannot be accessed through the external network. Because the public network does not know this hostname, nor does it bind the hostname to your IP.
For example, you can enter other custom host names at will in the browser, and you will find the same error displayed.
The solution is that you need to purchase an available public domain name from the domain name provider and bind it to IP address.
If you insist on using custom domain name, it can only be used on the internal network. In addition to the configuration made on the server side, it is also need to add the host name and IP address in the hosts file of the client machine.
45.60.200.110 web.microsoft.com
The website I want to go is pixiv.net, and after I ping it I found out it's ip, which is 210.129.120.44, but if I directly putting this ip as address in a browser, I got a access forbidden. But I can visit pixiv.net. And then I tried to bind this ip with pixiv.net in my host file. I can still get access to pixiv.net.
The web server at that location is probably configured to respond to a fully qualified domain name that it routes to a directory of HTML pages and other assets. It’s likely there is no configuration for requests to its root IP address.
It is likely one of the following two,
The nginx web server at that IP could be configured only to allow access via the domain name. prevent access via IP on nginx
The nginx server could be a reverse proxy which re-routes requests to the true web server. nginx as a reverse proxy server
I have installed IIS server on Windows 7 professional.
I am able to access the server using IP lets say 172.8.5.1 but when I try to ping the site outside of company network I get a network error (tcp_error)
Any one knows what needs to happen in order to access it over WWW?
Make sure that you have a static IP adresse,and then authorize incoming http request on port 80 from your router or your firewall.But the ip adresse should be accessible by 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.