Very Lost on what I want to do...

Hey folks,

I've done basic troubleshooting with standard web site installs on SBS
with regard to IIS, but I am lost when it comes to my task below.

I'm sure these questions have been asked millions of times, but I am
having trouble coming up with the right phrases needed for searches.

Here's what I am trying to do:

1. Setting up two public domains: mail.myserver.com and
ols.myserver.com. Each point to one IP address. At that IP address is
a Windows Server 2008 system running IIS7.

2. If someone comes in over ols.*, they are redirected to mail.*

3. mail.* is OWA residing on the same server.

4. I would prefer the true FQDN of OWA be mail.myserver.com instead of
myserver.com/owa.

I know I will need to do the heavy lifting when it comes to getting it
setup, but I am just trying to understand, in general, how something
like this is setup.

For instance: If I type in "mail.myserver.com," is IIS going to go to
a site? A directory off Default? Or a setup virtual directory? How
does it know where to go?

Any help is appreciated...

m

Dave
Tue Jul 15 17:12:52 CDT 2008


<thecomputervalet@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:14a54975-a5f5-4c01-87df-5ce43772cd58@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> Hey folks,
>
> I've done basic troubleshooting with standard web site installs on SBS
> with regard to IIS, but I am lost when it comes to my task below.
>
> I'm sure these questions have been asked millions of times, but I am
> having trouble coming up with the right phrases needed for searches.
>
> Here's what I am trying to do:
>
> 1. Setting up two public domains: mail.myserver.com and
> ols.myserver.com. Each point to one IP address. At that IP address is
> a Windows Server 2008 system running IIS7.
>
> 2. If someone comes in over ols.*, they are redirected to mail.*
>
> 3. mail.* is OWA residing on the same server.
>
> 4. I would prefer the true FQDN of OWA be mail.myserver.com instead of
> myserver.com/owa.
>
> I know I will need to do the heavy lifting when it comes to getting it
> setup, but I am just trying to understand, in general, how something
> like this is setup.
>
> For instance: If I type in "mail.myserver.com," is IIS going to go to
> a site? A directory off Default? Or a setup virtual directory? How
> does it know where to go?
>
> Any help is appreciated...
>
> m

you need to look up 'host headers'. that is the mechanism that iis uses to
get the fqdn that the browser has requested. basically you create a new
site in iis and define the fqdn's that it will respond to and iis handles
the routing to the right site.

thecomputervalet
Wed Jul 16 13:01:14 CDT 2008

On Jul 15, 5:12=A0pm, "Dave" <no...@nowhere.com> wrote:

> you need to look up 'host headers'. =A0that is the mechanism that iis use=
s to
> get the fqdn that the browser has requested. =A0basically you create a ne=
w
> site in iis and define the fqdn's that it will respond to and iis handles
> the routing to the right site.

Dave,

Thanks. I see what you mean here and it looks like it's what I need to
go for! I will research it up a bit...