You give the friendly URL to your users. They shouldn’t need to know what that resolves via the abstraction layer of DNS. That allows you to repoint the “friendly URL” to a different backend server any time you want.
It’s like going to www.microsoft.com<http://www.microsoft.com> or www.google.com<http://www.google.com> – there isn’t a single server that serves this up. There’s probably thousands (or more) behind the scenes. Users are none the wiser. There’s some other stuff you may need to do if you need various authentication schemes to work, but that’s not unique to your situation. Regards Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com <ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> On Behalf Of Tom P Sent: Friday, 27 September 2019 6:35 AM To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Subject: Re: Friendly URL for intranet apps Cheers Ken. What happens to the URL the user seen going forward in this case? The friendly URL or serverA/serverB? On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 21:12, Ken Schaefer <k...@adopenstatic.com<mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com>> wrote: You do this in DNS You’d have records for: ServerA -> IP address ServerB -> IP address Already, so that browsers can find ServerA and ServerB. In the same DNS zone (if you are using AD at work, then you already most likely have Microsoft DNS running to support that AD domain), create a CNAME record that points “myapp” -> A record for ServerA or ServerB. CNAME is effectively an alias record that points to another record From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> <ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>> On Behalf Of Tom P Sent: Friday, 20 September 2019 3:05 PM To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>> Subject: Friendly URL for intranet apps Hi folks I’m moving an intranet app from an old server to a new server. Currently the users access the site with a URL like http://serverA/appName/. The issue is now that I’m moving the app the server name in the URL will change to http://serverB/appName. All the users are forced to update their bookmarks which is a bit lame in my view. I’m sure this isn’t a new issue. What is a good way to handle this? Would be good to have a URL like http://myapp.mydomain.com.au but where would this be set up? In IIS somewhere? DNS entry? How and where to set it up? Cheers -- Thanks Tom -- Thanks Tom
