Multiple Web Sites

I have an IIS 6.0 server with one web site on it. I also have an ISA firewall.

Can I set up a second web site on the web server? And how do I handle the firewall to handle 2 website requests, (one - college.edu, one- course.college.edu) both on the same web server?

Thanks

 

Yes, you can do it as this MS technical docuement shows. However, I think the main problem is that with IIS you have to provide a separate IP address for each domain. I don't understand why, but I am fairly sure you do. This may not be too much of a problem if you only have two sites, but may well be a problem if you want to host many sites in this way.

If you don't use ASP/ASP.NET, it may be easier to do what you want with Apache rather than IIS. Apache will allow you to host multiple sites/domains on a single IP. Until Mono gets a little easier to set up, an ASP/ASP.NET system will need IIS and you'll need the multiple IPs.

Also remember that you'll need to update DNS so that each additional website has entries that point to your IIS server.

If you can host all the sites/domains on one IP, I don't think you'll need to update ISA (they will all come in on the same ports). However, I don't use ISA and it may use rules at the service level rather than the transport layer. If so you may have to alter some of the rules. If you need an IP for each site/domain, you'll need to update ISA to tell it to allow those addresses for incoming traffic.

 

Why couldnt you make the domain name college.edu and then use college.edu/course?
That would just be a sub folder of College.edu

 

Theres a few ways to accomplish this:

You can use a second IP and just configure the IIS site to listen on a different IP, or host headers
How To Use Host Header Names to Configure Multiple Web Sites in Internet Information Services 5.0
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308163

Then just follow this for configuring the ISA box
How To Securely Publish Multiple Web Sites by Using ISA Server in Windows 2000 and Windows 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313072/EN-US/#5

It may seem a little tricky, but its pretty straightforward.

 

It is the webmaster that is requesting this. I really don't know much about web design. Can you give me info on the subfolder? It sounds like it would be much easier to create college.edu/courses.

Thanks

 

try this

This is actually easy, just add a block of ip's in your network card and from there you can create as many actual sites in IIs you want assinging them each their own ip address from the block on the network card. You then have individual ip's listen ports on your firewall "also using a block" have your isp point a site to a paticular ip that you firewall listens to, from there you create a "static route" so when that ip gets hit it goes only to the ip on the server for that web site.

easy peasy,

Michael

 

I added a second ip address to the network card. Told the second site on IIS to use this IP address. In ISA, I created a destination rule and a web publishing rule. My problem is, I can only access the web site by ip address, not by name. What did I miss?

 

One more quick question...Is it ok for the second site to use the same port "80" or should it be a different one.

Thanks

 

I was unable to access the website by url name with multiple ip address, so we are trying host header names.

On article #324287, step #17. Register the host header name. Am I suppose to create a cname on the DNS server?

Thanks

 

DNS can fix

Ok so now you will have to create a DNS record to forward your internal sites to this site, it is working from the out side yes??

I believe since this is on the inside you may just have to change the A record.

see this request http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=40276



If this is on the outside you will need a second IP (public) then you will add this as an ip to your firewall and create a static route (or rule) to forward this to your servers internal ip (the one for the web page)

 

It is not necessary to use additional IP addresses to have another Web Server. Use Host Headers .

DRD

 

Yes

Yes that is correct but it does make it much easer and cleaner,