iis http binding question

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jcmuse

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Hi all,

I'm running an SBS 2003 domain with a windows 2008 server being used for sql and sharepoint.

To get to the sharepoint site locally, i type http://myserversname and it takes me there.

What i want to do is be able to make my own http addresses so for example, if someone types http://sharepoint it takes them to the sharepoint site. I need to learn how to do this for multiple addresses which will all redirect to another location. That way i can make really simple addresses for people to go to specific sharepoint pages.

I hope i've explained myself ok, thanks in advance.
 
Create A records in the DNS on your 2003 server. You can get creative and do it somehow..

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323445

For example.. You should be doing this for your exchange server already. Say you have mydomain.com, well, mail.mydomain.com is pointed to your external IP address. so you go into dns and add "mydomain.com".. then create an A record for mail that points to the internal IP address, and maybe another one for www that points to the ip address where your website is located if it is hosted somehwere.



Or just create hosts file entries on all of the computers..
 
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Point your internal DNS to the IP the server is one. So create an A record for "sharepoint" that points to the sharepoint server IP. Then add another binding on the IIS manager hosting sharepoint which points to the Sharepoint name.
 
What you have is two issues, there is the DNS issue that everyone has touched on, and then there is IIS. DNS is what translates a name to an IP address. We as people understand names http://sharepoint, we have a rough time remembering that http://sharepoint is also http://192.168.88.254. So DNS does that translation between the IP address, 192.168.88.254, and the name Sharepoint.

Is your 2008 server hosting multiple websites or just the SharePoint site? If it is mutiple websites, then you do named hosting within IIS. You can find more information on Host Header here. If you are not hosting multiple websites, then you don't do anything to IIS, it is setup by default to answer all web requests sent to it no matter what the name is.
 
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