Hi Reed, Sounds like you're going to want to run multiple websites, not just virtual directories. You say Win2K, as long as it is not Pro you'll be fine. In the IIS administrator you'll want to add a new web site.
In the second page of the new website configuration process you'll be asked for the IP, TCP Port and the host header for the web site. The host header is the field you seem to be asking about. You can set that value to whatever you need and then all requests to your IP and for whatever domain you place in the Host Header will be answered by this website. To edit an existing site, right click on the site and load the site's properties. On the Web Site tab with the address information is an Advanced... button. That is where you can edit the host headers after they've already been loaded and you need to change them. HTH, t ********************************************************************** Tyler M. Fitch Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer http://isitedesign.com ********************************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Reed Powell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 8:06 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Setting up IIS to parse domain name? Well, we're trying to move into the 20th century finally, by moving our shared Intranet CF/webserver box from NT4 and WebsitePro to Win2K and IIS. I'd like to try and make it a "better world" for the users as well, but I'm stumped. On the NT4/WebsitePro server we have each site setup as a virtual directory. We also have a couple of DNS aliases setup so that users of each app can see a domain name that makes sense to them, but in reality we could swap those aliases around and it wouldn't matter, since they all point to the same canonical DNS name, and it's the /BLAH that comes after it that gets the users to the correct virtual directory. I know (but cannot seem to figure out how to make it happen) that Win2K/IIS5 can parse the domain name info that comes over from the HTTP request, and use it to determine which IIS website to go to to find the user's page. That would be great, because sometimes users leave off that /BLAH, and end up in some other guy's website, all confused and upset. If IIS can look at the URL coming in on the HTTP request and say "Aha, THISAPP.BLAH.BLAH.BLAH refers to website THISAPP" then that would be what I'm trying to do. Vanna, I need to buy a vowel. Anyone out there have a vowel? I've been up one site of the IIS menus and down the other, and nothing seems to work. Can this capability point to a virtual directory, or just to a website under IIS? thanks for the help that I know will be coming! -reed FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists ______________________________________________________________________ Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusiona FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
