I have a test environment where I want to have IIS installed on 2 servers, in such a way that they host a website tied to a single IP balanced via NLB and routed via ARR. I have the two servers with IIS 7.5 installed now.
What I am looking to do is:
Host a site inside of IIS using UNC (I can already host a sample site inside of wwwroot locally)
Install NLB as a cluster for both servers
Install ARR and add a ServerFarm in IIS for both servers
Can anyone tell me if any of this is possible? I have looked into various pages on ServerFault, as well as here on stackoverflow, on IIS.net, on other forums, without success. I just need a basic website that I can get hosted on an internal fileshare via UNC path.
Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
G
Yes, this is absolutely possible, in fact there are great tutorials on doing just that:
http://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/configuring-application-request-routing-(arr)/achieving-high-availability-and-scalability-arr-and-nlb
http://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/configuring-application-request-routing-(arr)/configure-3-tier-deployment-architecture-using-application-request-routing
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I have Microsoft Windows server 2008 R2 and have the IIS 7 running.
I have coded a web application on a seperate laptop and would like to publish it now on my server (serves as AD, DNS, File Server, IIS) that runs locally and has no external access. We will be using the application internally only.
I have followed the steps to install a website on IIS, however, it does not work. Below are the steps I have done.
Created a folder hierarchy and pasted the code files there. (check below image. The code files are inside wwwroot)
Create a new website from the IIS Manager as the below image.
The wwwroot folder has SYSTEM permission and it inherits the permissions from the parent. (Does it need to have other permissions?!?)
Whenever I visit the website, I get an error that the page is not found.
UPDATE
Upon #Ravi A's answer below, I have tried his steps as the below image, but the username is not found and the error persists.
Any ideas what is wrong?
windows iis website
You need to add a binding in your DNS i.e. ping mysite.local should resolve to the server IP, in your case since it's a intranet it should resolve to 192.168.1.253.
See here on how to do it. You need access to DNS Manager.
Also since you are not clear on DNS mapping leave the hostname empty and use machine name or IP to browse the site.
I recently started a project of building a server at home and trying to host a website on it. I have almost everything setup and working correctly but only have one issue, I can't figure out how to use my domain with it. I've been searching the internet for a few days and everything I come across isn't very informative on how to do it. I'm very new to hosting my own servers and would love any help. Thanks in advanced.
I should also mention that I'm using Windows Server 2012 R2 and IIS 8. The computer has a static IP as well.
Not sure what you mean by use my domain but I am guessing if you go to the url it is not loading you site? If that is the case, have you registered you bomain with a provider (godaddy, namecheep, etc)? After that make sure your router is forwarding the ports needed to your computer. Lastly make sure that those ports are open on your firewall. Things to help debug issues is can you ping your domain and get your static IP, if not the issue is with your domain registration. If it tries to load the site and doesn't but the IP is good then the issue is between the provider and you computer more than likely.
I am currently setting up a development machine at my company and I would like to be able to set up a few local sites on this one machine for testing. In order to do so, I am running the following software:
ColdFusion Server 10 (Developer's Edition)
IIS
Everything is installed and I am able to run the default site (from localhost) but I can't figure out, nor can I find how I can set up other sites on this system. I have the files for each site on the local machine. Ideally, I would like to be able to call up each site using a subdomain, such as (http://site1.domain.com, http://site2.domain.com, http://site3.domain.com) where each one points to a separate file base on the local machine.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Create the sites in IIS for each site, pointing to its respective web root. Then run the web server configuration tool to hook up the connectors for the sites.
You can find that under {ColdFusion root}/cfusion/runtime/bin/wsconfig.exe (on windows - not sure of the file extension on non-windows machines)
From there you can run the connector for each individual site or you can set it to run the connector for every site.
I am trying for the past couple of days to configure IIS 7.5 and coldfusion to run on my local machine but I hit a wall.
I have two sites that I am trying to create a run locally but 1 of them is working and the other one does not.
My coldfusion admin is working and I was able to set up my settings (db connections and stuff).
Under IIS management I am creating a site, assign it to the correct folder on my machine set the path as "local.site1.com" and everything runs as it should.
When I am trying to do the same thing for Site2, I'm getting a message from Chrome saying "Oops! Google Chrome could not find local.site2.com"
Any recommendations will be greatly appreciated.
add local.site2.com to your hostfile
Are both sites pointing to the same codebase if so that is difficult to achieve with IIS7 and 7.5?
I want to install multiple Sitecore instances to be hosted under one domain. So the root url of first instance will be http://example.com/instance-1 and so on.
The reason I want to have multiple instances is that, I want to split environments for each site. I know I can play with bindings and publish each instance on other port within same domain. I also know that I can install multiple sites under one instance. But I didn't found solution how to install instance in IIS site subdirectory.
Please if anyone was successful instaling multiple instances as child application or virtual directory, please share the knowledge.
I'm using Sitecore 6.5 and IIS 7.5
Sitecore does not support running in virtual directories.
It must run in its own website.
However, i did come up with a trick, but it is quite advanced and i don't have clear cut examples:
Setup one site that will be your main domain with sub folders (eg.
www.mydomain.com/site-a , www.mydomain.com/site-b
Setup your separate Sitecore instances as separate IIS websites
Give each site its own hostname and add it to your hosts file (so you get http://site-a, http://site-b, etc)
Install the IIS URL Rewrite feature, make sure rewriting of the HTTP_HOST server variable is allowed
Configure rewriting on your main site, so that http://www.mydomain.com/site-a/* is rewritten to http://site-a/*
Create a custom linkprovider that makes sure Sitecore links are being written using the correct domain and folder (so http://site-a/item is written as http://www.mydomain.com/site-a/item)
I'm sure this is possible as i've implemented a similar solution for a site that hosted clones if a site as 'virtual' folders.
I wonder why you have the need to host multiple Sitecore instances on the same domain. Sitecore has good solutions for multi site setup in the same instance. If the solution Ruud provided is not workable for your, check the multi site solution of Tim Ward ( https://github.com/jerrong/Sitecore-Multisite-Manager ) or the shared source module on the Sitecore Marketplace ( http://marketplace.sitecore.net/en/Modules/Multiple_Sites_Manager.aspx )