Hi,

I have a portal with this URL:


http://itportal


it needs to be changed to this URL:


http://technologyportal


How do you do this?

(we have a medium server farm - 2 front end web servers, 2 sql servers
and 2 indexers)

Thanks.

Re: Portal URL Change by Kevin

Kevin
Fri Oct 26 00:09:19 PDT 2007

Hi, i replied to this the other day.
Just one addition since you have multiple WFEs, just change the host
header in IIS on each of your WFEs


=====
This is quite simple (i'm assuming you're using MOSS2007):
Go to central admin, click Operations and then Alternate Access
Mappings (under global configuration)
Select the appropriate web application in the 'Alternate Access
Mapping Collection' section. After that, click Edit Public URLs and
then you can update the address there.

After that is done, open up the IIS console and change the hostheader
for the site (Properties (of web site) --> website tab --> advanced
button))


I've found on odd occassions sometimes the site stops being crawled,
so you *might* need to look at your search settings in the SSP
====

On Oct 25, 5:58 pm, "steve.howl...@gmail.com"
<steve.howl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a portal with this URL:
>
> http://itportal
>
> it needs to be changed to this URL:
>
> http://technologyportal
>
> How do you do this?
>
> (we have a medium server farm - 2 front end web servers, 2 sql servers
> and 2 indexers)
>
> Thanks.



Re: Portal URL Change by steve

steve
Fri Oct 26 05:15:31 PDT 2007

On Oct 26, 8:09 am, Kevin Storey <ksto...@solutionsit.com.au> wrote:
> Hi, i replied to this the other day.
> Just one addition since you have multiple WFEs, just change the host
> header in IIS on each of your WFEs
>
> =====
> This is quite simple (i'm assuming you're using MOSS2007):
> Go to central admin, click Operations and then Alternate Access
> Mappings (under global configuration)
> Select the appropriate web application in the 'Alternate Access
> Mapping Collection' section. After that, click Edit Public URLs and
> then you can update the address there.
>
> After that is done, open up the IIS console and change the hostheader
> for the site (Properties (of web site) --> website tab --> advanced
> button))
>
> I've found on odd occassions sometimes the site stops being crawled,
> so you *might* need to look at your search settings in the SSP
> ====
>
> On Oct 25, 5:58 pm, "steve.howl...@gmail.com"
>
>
>
> <steve.howl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I have a portal with this URL:
>
> >http://itportal
>
> > it needs to be changed to this URL:
>
> >http://technologyportal
>
> > How do you do this?
>
> > (we have a medium server farm - 2 front end web servers, 2 sql servers
> > and 2 indexers)
>
> > Thanks.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Hi,

Did you?

I thought I had already posted but on searching it has not shownn up.

Please can you repost your full answer here as my search does not
return the original post.

Thanks in advance.


Re: Portal URL Change by steve

steve
Fri Oct 26 05:16:03 PDT 2007

On Oct 26, 8:09 am, Kevin Storey <ksto...@solutionsit.com.au> wrote:
> Hi, i replied to this the other day.
> Just one addition since you have multiple WFEs, just change the host
> header in IIS on each of your WFEs
>
> =====
> This is quite simple (i'm assuming you're using MOSS2007):
> Go to central admin, click Operations and then Alternate Access
> Mappings (under global configuration)
> Select the appropriate web application in the 'Alternate Access
> Mapping Collection' section. After that, click Edit Public URLs and
> then you can update the address there.
>
> After that is done, open up the IIS console and change the hostheader
> for the site (Properties (of web site) --> website tab --> advanced
> button))
>
> I've found on odd occassions sometimes the site stops being crawled,
> so you *might* need to look at your search settings in the SSP
> ====
>
> On Oct 25, 5:58 pm, "steve.howl...@gmail.com"
>
>
>
> <steve.howl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I have a portal with this URL:
>
> >http://itportal
>
> > it needs to be changed to this URL:
>
> >http://technologyportal
>
> > How do you do this?
>
> > (we have a medium server farm - 2 front end web servers, 2 sql servers
> > and 2 indexers)
>
> > Thanks.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -



On other thing - we are using Portal 2003 not 2007!


Re: Portal URL Change by Kevin

Kevin
Sun Oct 28 16:59:06 PDT 2007

On Oct 26, 9:16 pm, "steve.howl...@gmail.com"
<steve.howl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 26, 8:09 am, Kevin Storey <ksto...@solutionsit.com.au> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi, i replied to this the other day.
> > Just one addition since you have multiple WFEs, just change the host
> > header in IIS on each of your WFEs
>
> > =====
> > This is quite simple (i'm assuming you're using MOSS2007):
> > Go to central admin, click Operations and then Alternate Access
> > Mappings (under global configuration)
> > Select the appropriate web application in the 'Alternate Access
> > Mapping Collection' section. After that, click Edit Public URLs and
> > then you can update the address there.
>
> > After that is done, open up the IIS console and change the hostheader
> > for the site (Properties (of web site) --> website tab --> advanced
> > button))
>
> > I've found on odd occassions sometimes the site stops being crawled,
> > so you *might* need to look at your search settings in the SSP
> > ====
>
> > On Oct 25, 5:58 pm, "steve.howl...@gmail.com"
>
> > <steve.howl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
>
> > > I have a portal with this URL:
>
> > >http://itportal
>
> > > it needs to be changed to this URL:
>
> > >http://technologyportal
>
> > > How do you do this?
>
> > > (we have a medium server farm - 2 front end web servers, 2 sql servers
> > > and 2 indexers)
>
> > > Thanks.- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> On other thing - we are using Portal 2003 not 2007!- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

If that's the case, just change the host headers in IIS. I haven't
had any issues in doing that, unless the full URL has been referred to
directly within portal sites (e.g. linking to http://itportal/sites/site001
instead of /sites/site001

Probably best to mention that you're using portal 2003, otherwise lots
will assume that you're using MOSS2007


Re: Portal URL Change by steve

steve
Mon Oct 29 02:51:07 PDT 2007

On 28 Oct, 23:59, Kevin Storey <ksto...@solutionsit.com.au> wrote:
> On Oct 26, 9:16 pm, "steve.howl...@gmail.com"
>
>
>
>
>
> <steve.howl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Oct 26, 8:09 am, Kevin Storey <ksto...@solutionsit.com.au> wrote:
>
> > > Hi, i replied to this the other day.
> > > Just one addition since you have multiple WFEs, justchangethe host
> > > header in IIS on each of your WFEs
>
> > > =====
> > > This is quite simple (i'm assuming you're using MOSS2007):
> > > Go to central admin, click Operations and then Alternate Access
> > > Mappings (under global configuration)
> > > Select the appropriate web application in the 'Alternate Access
> > > Mapping Collection' section. After that, click Edit Public URLs and
> > > then you can update the address there.
>
> > > After that is done, open up the IIS console andchangethe hostheader
> > > for the site (Properties (of web site) --> website tab --> advanced
> > > button))
>
> > > I've found on odd occassions sometimes the site stops being crawled,
> > > so you *might* need to look at your search settings in the SSP
> > > ====
>
> > > On Oct 25, 5:58 pm, "steve.howl...@gmail.com"
>
> > > <steve.howl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
>
> > > > I have aportalwith thisURL:
>
> > > >http://itportal
>
> > > > it needs to be changed to thisURL:
>
> > > >http://technologyportal
>
> > > > How do you do this?
>
> > > > (we have a medium server farm - 2 front end web servers, 2 sql servers
> > > > and 2 indexers)
>
> > > > Thanks.- Hide quoted text -
>
> > > - Show quoted text -
>
> > On other thing - we are usingPortal2003 not 2007!- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> If that's the case, justchangethe host headers in IIS. I haven't
> had any issues in doing that, unless the fullURLhas been referred to
> directly withinportalsites (e.g. linking to http://itportal/sites/site001
> instead of /sites/site001
>
> Probably best to mention that you're usingportal2003, otherwise lots
> will assume that you're using MOSS2007- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Hi,


Thanks for the info.

Unfortunately we do have absolute references in the Portal... ie
people do link to:

http://itportal/sites/site001

not

/sites/site001

Do you have any thoughts on this scenario please?

Thanks...




Re: Portal URL Change by Kevin

Kevin
Tue Nov 06 15:39:15 PST 2007

Sorry for the delay in my response,

All i can think of is lots of pain in changing these links; or to
publish the site (with the changes made already) WITH ISA 2004 or
2006 and use link translation to translate anything having http://itportal/
to http://technologyportal

On Oct 29, 6:51 pm, "steve.howl...@gmail.com"
<steve.howl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 Oct, 23:59, Kevin Storey <ksto...@solutionsit.com.au> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Oct 26, 9:16 pm, "steve.howl...@gmail.com"
>
> > <steve.howl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Oct 26, 8:09 am, Kevin Storey <ksto...@solutionsit.com.au> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi, i replied to this the other day.
> > > > Just one addition since you have multiple WFEs, justchangethe host
> > > > header in IIS on each of your WFEs
>
> > > > =====
> > > > This is quite simple (i'm assuming you're using MOSS2007):
> > > > Go to central admin, click Operations and then Alternate Access
> > > > Mappings (under global configuration)
> > > > Select the appropriate web application in the 'Alternate Access
> > > > Mapping Collection' section. After that, click Edit Public URLs and
> > > > then you can update the address there.
>
> > > > After that is done, open up the IIS console andchangethe hostheader
> > > > for the site (Properties (of web site) --> website tab --> advanced
> > > > button))
>
> > > > I've found on odd occassions sometimes the site stops being crawled,
> > > > so you *might* need to look at your search settings in the SSP
> > > > ====
>
> > > > On Oct 25, 5:58 pm, "steve.howl...@gmail.com"
>
> > > > <steve.howl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
>
> > > > > I have aportalwith thisURL:
>
> > > > >http://itportal
>
> > > > > it needs to be changed to thisURL:
>
> > > > >http://technologyportal
>
> > > > > How do you do this?
>
> > > > > (we have a medium server farm - 2 front end web servers, 2 sql servers
> > > > > and 2 indexers)
>
> > > > > Thanks.- Hide quoted text -
>
> > > > - Show quoted text -
>
> > > On other thing - we are usingPortal2003 not 2007!- Hide quoted text -
>
> > > - Show quoted text -
>
> > If that's the case, justchangethe host headers in IIS. I haven't
> > had any issues in doing that, unless the fullURLhas been referred to
> > directly withinportalsites (e.g. linking tohttp://itportal/sites/site001
> > instead of /sites/site001
>
> > Probably best to mention that you're usingportal2003, otherwise lots
> > will assume that you're using MOSS2007- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Unfortunately we do have absolute references in the Portal... ie
> people do link to:
>
> http://itportal/sites/site001
>
> not
>
> /sites/site001
>
> Do you have any thoughts on this scenario please?
>
> Thanks...- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -