Solvetech
Mon Jul 21 02:24:08 CDT 2008
On Jul 20, 7:32=A0pm, cboozb <cbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I have a moss7 web application, myportalserver, with a site
> collection mysitecollection on a Windows 2003 server. It is 'bound' to
> the default iis website (on port 80) on this server; =A0I can open a
> browser on this server and type in
http://myportalserver/sites/mysitecolle=
ction
> to access this; can someone give me a step-by-step directions so that
> I could access this same web application locally through the browser
> using alternate urls e.g.
http://grumpy/sites/mysitecollectionandhttp://do=
pey/sites/mysitecollection?
1. Find out what the ip address of your sharepoint server is
2. On your PC open up your hosts file (located in C:\Windows
\System32\drivers\etc)
3. Create an entry in your local hosts file using notepad
4. Enter the ipaddress of your sharepoint server followed by the name
you want to access by e.g.
192.168.0.200 grumpy
5. Save the hosts file
6. Test it works by PINGing grumpy from a DOS prompt
Now it should work but only from your PC - it will not work from other
PCs.
If you want it to work from other PCs you need to use DNS on your DNS
server to create records for Grumpy.
When a PC tries to resolve a name it looks in the local Hosts file and
also performs lookups on the server specified as its DNS server.