I have a domain www.foo.com purchase with NameCheap.
I pointed that domain name to my VPS's static IP address and created a web application in IIS7 and it's working correctly.
Now I created another separate web application and set it's binding to forums.foo.com.
However the browsers doesn't enter the site and it seems the binding isn't doing quite what I expect it to do.
In Firefox, I get:
Server not found
Firefox can't find the server at forums.foo.com.
Is there some sort of special configuration I have to do in order for the subdomain to correctly point to my folder in inetpub?
Don't you have to configure the subdomain with namecheap first?
Who is serving dns for the subdomain?
Related
I added my vb.net web app to IIS 8 on my Azure Windows 2012 server R2 VM.
Then, I did IIS > right-click Sites > Add Web Site
and set "Site name" to my_site.org
and set Physical path to project directory for my web site
and set "Host name" also to my_site.org.
Works great. From Internet, I browse to http://my_site.org and it runs OK.
Now I want people to also browse to www.my_site.org
but when I Add Web Site, just like above, but for www.my_site.org
it adds ok, but when I select www.my_site.org and click IIS Browse www.my_site.org browser pops up but reads "webpage cannot be found"
Nor can I browse it from Internet.
Because what is WWW? essentially that is a subdomain that you would need WWW to exist for it to load WWW.
Best option may be to set up domain forwarding to WWW, maybe a CNAME in your domain options?
From Azure documentation, "You must also provide the domain or subdomain alias for the CNAME, such as www if you want to create an alias for www.customdomain.com. If you want to create an alias for the root domain, it may be listed as the '#' symbol in your registrar's DNS tools."
More at:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-custom-domain-name/
Hope this helps! :)
Shahed
I have two sites configured on my IIS 7 server. One is the default web site and the other we will call www.othersite.com. The default web site runs a few different Applications running ASP.NET and the other site is a ColdFusion 8 web site.
The default site is configured to pull from the default web location at C:\inetpub\wwwroot while the other is set to pull from C:\sites\othersite.
The bindings are set to send all unassigned traffic to the Default Web Site, but www.othersite.com is set to a specific IP address. This is the same as I have it on other servers, which work perfectly well, but for some reason when I load www.othersite.com it is looking for its files in C:\inetpub\wwwroot instead of C:\sites\othersite even though the physical path is clearly defined in the basic settings.
Anyone have any idea why this might be and how I can get it to point to the proper directory?
Under IIS >> Bindings, you can see a place to put in "Host name". Leaving blank will result in all traffic to IP or host, but by specifying a host name (www.othersite.com) will direct traffic to that dir/site.
I've set up a wordpress network with the sub-domain feature in an IIS server. While the process is difficult because IIS doesn't support wildcards very easily, I have gotten wildcard subdomains to work in the past.
When I create a site in the network and try to access it, I just get an error saying the site can not be found. Not a 404 from IIS, but like the DNS record could not be found.
I have DNS set up on the server with the wildcard A name record, in the same instance as two other sites where the wildcard redirect works. I even tried giving it a Cname record, but it's still not finding it.
Issue was with DNS setting from the name server. Counterpart stated they had made change when they had not.
I am new to the web world, so I apologize if this question is silly.
I have an ASP.NET web site I wish to deploy.
The server has IIS 7 deployed on it, and I've added the site
to that IIS server as a web site.
For the time being I don't have a domain mapped to the site,
I would like the users to browse for the site directly by using the server's IP.
Is that even possible? because I failed to do it.
The only option that worked so far is using the hosts file to declare
a fake domain.
It would be nice if someone could clarify that issue for me.
Thanks a lot,
Omer
If you set the site bindings to IP address: All Unassigned on port 80, and do not provide a host name, then any request that makes it through to IIS should be served by that site. Make sure you stop any other sites that might have that binding (e.g., "Default Web Site" is normally bound to this).
In order to access the site by IP, you can't have the host name populated in IIS. Your best bet would be to use the "Default Web Site" that's already in IIS, and point that to your application.
Using IP is possible, but you need to make sure your users can see this ip from their machines.
I am applying SSL in my sample web application using self signed certificate. The purpose is to test the session availability when I go from http to https or the other way round.
My localhost address is localhost:5366. I have done these as follows:
I have added a website in IIS. But confused that when binding using http, I give port 5366. I works fine but when I remove it and apply https, port 5366. The page doesnot load.
So, what should I do to accomplish this?
Its a bit confusing, but if i can bet, you are interchanging the debug mode from VS and the published site, correct me if am wrong.
I configured my https site in this way:
Configure your IIS to accept https through port 443.
Set the website file system place to a certain folder
Publish your website with VS to this folder
Reach it through https://localhost
Hope it works!
My project was not residing in the iis physical path. Therefore, it was not loading my desired pages. Thank you guys.