Creating a Host (A) record for a second website

I'm looking to host two websites off of a single server. I'm got the
domain registration site pointing to the public IP of my server; and
I've set up a second site with host header in my IIS 6.0. I've got two
questions now (and please bare with me, I have limited knowledge/
experience with hosting sites and server management)...

1) Is there a way to use the same port as the first site, or do I have
to set it up on another site. (not hard, I just have to figure out
what's open to use if need be).

2) I believe I need to set up add an (A) record in the DNS Server
Management console (As recommended in this article I was pointed to in
another post http://www.gafvert.info/iis/article/iis_multiple_websites.htm).
Assuming that I need to set this up; can anyone help me with what I
need to do to set this up, or point me to someplace on line with
instructions? It looks fairly self explanitory, but since it took me
two days to dawn on the fact that I needed to do this; I'd like to
make sure that I don't miss something else.

Thank you in advance to anyone that can help me with this. It's been
driving me nuts for the last couple days, and as stated before my
knowledge on this subject is somewhat limited.

rsteph49
Thu May 10 10:04:43 CDT 2007

Also on the Host (A) record... should I make another Lookup Zone for
it, or put it in with the Lookup Zone that the other website is in? It
appears all of our other computers are on that Zone.

On May 10, 10:33 am, rstep...@hotmail.com wrote:
> I'm looking to host two websites off of a single server. I'm got the
> domain registration site pointing to the public IP of my server; and
> I've set up a second site with host header in my IIS 6.0. I've got two
> questions now (and please bare with me, I have limited knowledge/
> experience with hosting sites and server management)...
>
> 1) Is there a way to use the same port as the first site, or do I have
> to set it up on another site. (not hard, I just have to figure out
> what's open to use if need be).
>
> 2) I believe I need to set up add an (A) record in the DNS Server
> Management console (As recommended in this article I was pointed to in
> another posthttp://www.gafvert.info/iis/article/iis_multiple_websites.htm).
> Assuming that I need to set this up; can anyone help me with what I
> need to do to set this up, or point me to someplace on line with
> instructions? It looks fairly self explanitory, but since it took me
> two days to dawn on the fact that I needed to do this; I'd like to
> make sure that I don't miss something else.
>
> Thank you in advance to anyone that can help me with this. It's been
> driving me nuts for the last couple days, and as stated before my
> knowledge on this subject is somewhat limited.

Jeff
Fri May 11 14:12:44 CDT 2007

You don't need to do anything more on IIS, just in DNS.

Add a CNAME record to your DNS server(external DNS - and internal DNS
server) type the second sites NAME in there and point it to the a-record's
address.

So essentially, you have 1 server with a master hosted IP address and that
IP has a master a-record -- you can them create ALIASES for that that use
that IP.

Just make sure you configure IIS properly. Make sure the DEFAULT site is
either using the the LOCAL IP on the server that is nat-ed to the external
internet facing IP (registered name) or set to "default"

On the second site, go and enter the host header name (newhost.domain.com)

And that should do it!



<rsteph49@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1178807586.701199.58380@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> I'm looking to host two websites off of a single server. I'm got the
> domain registration site pointing to the public IP of my server; and
> I've set up a second site with host header in my IIS 6.0. I've got two
> questions now (and please bare with me, I have limited knowledge/
> experience with hosting sites and server management)...
>
> 1) Is there a way to use the same port as the first site, or do I have
> to set it up on another site. (not hard, I just have to figure out
> what's open to use if need be).
>
> 2) I believe I need to set up add an (A) record in the DNS Server
> Management console (As recommended in this article I was pointed to in
> another post
> http://www.gafvert.info/iis/article/iis_multiple_websites.htm).
> Assuming that I need to set this up; can anyone help me with what I
> need to do to set this up, or point me to someplace on line with
> instructions? It looks fairly self explanitory, but since it took me
> two days to dawn on the fact that I needed to do this; I'd like to
> make sure that I don't miss something else.
>
> Thank you in advance to anyone that can help me with this. It's been
> driving me nuts for the last couple days, and as stated before my
> knowledge on this subject is somewhat limited.
>

Jeff
Fri May 11 14:14:22 CDT 2007

Also be aware there are limitations w/ host headers in IIS - You have to do
some configuring to allow IIS to use HOST HEADERS when using SSL.

IIS 5.0 and below do not support host headers. So, your newsites.domain.com
can't be https://newsite.domain.com

But I in the IIS 6 handbook, you can find a way around that - but 5.0 does
NOT work.

Flack-



<rsteph49@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1178807586.701199.58380@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> I'm looking to host two websites off of a single server. I'm got the
> domain registration site pointing to the public IP of my server; and
> I've set up a second site with host header in my IIS 6.0. I've got two
> questions now (and please bare with me, I have limited knowledge/
> experience with hosting sites and server management)...
>
> 1) Is there a way to use the same port as the first site, or do I have
> to set it up on another site. (not hard, I just have to figure out
> what's open to use if need be).
>
> 2) I believe I need to set up add an (A) record in the DNS Server
> Management console (As recommended in this article I was pointed to in
> another post
> http://www.gafvert.info/iis/article/iis_multiple_websites.htm).
> Assuming that I need to set this up; can anyone help me with what I
> need to do to set this up, or point me to someplace on line with
> instructions? It looks fairly self explanitory, but since it took me
> two days to dawn on the fact that I needed to do this; I'd like to
> make sure that I don't miss something else.
>
> Thank you in advance to anyone that can help me with this. It's been
> driving me nuts for the last couple days, and as stated before my
> knowledge on this subject is somewhat limited.
>