I'm a newbie on Win2003 Server.
I have a website on Windows 2003 Standard Edition.

I want to put a name for a website. How to?

In ex. every time an user type "attendance", the browser forward that
query to my attendance website, and opens it.

Thanks.

Hi Adrian,

Firstly you need to create a DNS record for the "attendance" name that
points to the Win2003 servers IP address.

Secondly, you need to edit the properties of the website using IIS Manager.
Right click on the website and choose properties. On the "Web Site" tab
click on the Advanced button. Set the "Host header value" to "attendance".

Regards,

Paul MaC


"Adrian C." <AdrianC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7CAC1E54-F340-4A30-B8C0-D9DFC173DF6F@microsoft.com...
> I'm a newbie on Win2003 Server.
> I have a website on Windows 2003 Standard Edition.
>
> I want to put a name for a website. How to?
>
> In ex. every time an user type "attendance", the browser forward that
> query to my attendance website, and opens it.
>
> Thanks.

Hi Adrian,

Firstly can you tell me, does "attendance" resolve to 192.168.1.7. You can
test this by typing "nslookup attendance" at a command prompt. If it does
then the issue is going to be in the IIS configuration. Otherwise the DNS
configuration needs another look.

Your DNS zone name is likely to look somthing like "abcd.local". You should
also create a second website identity like "attendance.abcd.local".

Both of the identities should be maped to port 80 and have IP Address set to
"All Unassigned" or to "192.168.1.7".

Just a note; If you got the DNS resolution working for "attendance" and the
website is not configured you should be seeing the default website from this
server.

Regards,

Paul MaC [MCSE]


>Hello,
>
> I've added a host with "attendance" on my dns server pointing to
> 192.168.1.7 and also "attendance" as http header to my website.
>
> Nothing.
>
> My question is :
> it's a hostname or an alias?
>
> thanks.

"Paul MaC" <paul.home@thewebcompany.com.au> wrote in message
news:25472BD0-8ED4-4247-8C5B-2307FFE194E0@microsoft.com...
> Hi Adrian,
>
> Firstly you need to create a DNS record for the "attendance" name that
> points to the Win2003 servers IP address.
>
> Secondly, you need to edit the properties of the website using IIS
> Manager. Right click on the website and choose properties. On the "Web
> Site" tab click on the Advanced button. Set the "Host header value" to
> "attendance".
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul MaC
>
>
> "Adrian C." <AdrianC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7CAC1E54-F340-4A30-B8C0-D9DFC173DF6F@microsoft.com...
>> I'm a newbie on Win2003 Server.
>> I have a website on Windows 2003 Standard Edition.
>>
>> I want to put a name for a website. How to?
>>
>> In ex. every time an user type "attendance", the browser forward that
>> query to my attendance website, and opens it.
>>
>> Thanks.
>