Aliasing domains on Windows Server 2003
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So I have two domians: abc.co.uk xyz.co.uk abc.co.uk is set up and works fine on a Windows 2003 server - I can browse to it no problem. I want to set up xyz.co.uk as an alias to abc.co.uk Why is Googling this so hard? Anyway, I tried this: Opened Admin tools / DNS Expanded "Forward Lookup Zone" Selected "abc.co.uk" Right-clicked, selected "New Alias (CNAME)..." Entered "xyz.co.uk" in the "Alias name" box, and "www.abc.co.uk" in the FQDN box (selected via "Browse..." button) Didn't work. Anyone know what I am supposed to do? Many thanks...
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So I have two domians: abc.co.uk xyz.co.uk abc.co.uk is set up and works fine on a Windows 2003 server - I can browse to it no problem. I want to set up xyz.co.uk as an alias to abc.co.uk Why is Googling this so hard? Anyway, I tried this: Opened Admin tools / DNS Expanded "Forward Lookup Zone" Selected "abc.co.uk" Right-clicked, selected "New Alias (CNAME)..." Entered "xyz.co.uk" in the "Alias name" box, and "www.abc.co.uk" in the FQDN box (selected via "Browse..." button) Didn't work. Anyone know what I am supposed to do? Many thanks...
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"Kind of the opposite"...huh..? Come on, be nice to me! :-) So now I have a new zone, xyz.co.uk ..and do "kind of the opposite" to before: Still doesn't work. I suppose it doesn't help that the terminology is somehat alien to me... sysadmin is not my forte, to say the least. But this is a simple enough task, surely - there must be a simple set of steps to follow.... So I have "zones" (whatever the they are) for both abc.co.uk (the site) and xyz.co.uk (to be the alias)... please, now what?
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"Kind of the opposite"...huh..? Come on, be nice to me! :-) So now I have a new zone, xyz.co.uk ..and do "kind of the opposite" to before: Still doesn't work. I suppose it doesn't help that the terminology is somehat alien to me... sysadmin is not my forte, to say the least. But this is a simple enough task, surely - there must be a simple set of steps to follow.... So I have "zones" (whatever the they are) for both abc.co.uk (the site) and xyz.co.uk (to be the alias)... please, now what?
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Windows Server 2003 Bible may provide you the answer. Google Book Search - you may read some of this book here[^] Hope it helps.
Jesus H Christ, do people actually read that sort of stuff, much less understand it? :~ I absolutely refuse to believe things need to be even half as complicated... Anyway, thanks... got something working by ignoring DNS altogether in the end, and just setting "Multiple identities for this website" in the advanced website settings in IIS manager! Seems to work, except not for subdomains, which is a bit of a nuisance but not critical at this stage..
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Jesus H Christ, do people actually read that sort of stuff, much less understand it? :~ I absolutely refuse to believe things need to be even half as complicated... Anyway, thanks... got something working by ignoring DNS altogether in the end, and just setting "Multiple identities for this website" in the advanced website settings in IIS manager! Seems to work, except not for subdomains, which is a bit of a nuisance but not critical at this stage..
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"Kind of the opposite"...huh..? Come on, be nice to me! :-) So now I have a new zone, xyz.co.uk ..and do "kind of the opposite" to before: Still doesn't work. I suppose it doesn't help that the terminology is somehat alien to me... sysadmin is not my forte, to say the least. But this is a simple enough task, surely - there must be a simple set of steps to follow.... So I have "zones" (whatever the they are) for both abc.co.uk (the site) and xyz.co.uk (to be the alias)... please, now what?
Ok, so you have the zone
abc.co.uk, in this zone you have the host (A-record)wwwwhich is pointing to 123.123.123.123, and by coincidence you happen to have a webserver on this ip-number. On the same or different dns server you have the zonexyz.co.ukand you want the recordwwwto point to the same server as in theabc.co.ukdomain. Then you have two choices, either make an A-record pointing the recordwwwdirectly towards the ipnumber of the server or to create an alias (cname) that is pointing towards www.abc.co.uk. The advantage of a cname is that if you change to a new server you only need to change the record in one dns-server. Just remember to leave "host header value" in the IIS empty, as that will filter away all requests not having this value in the request.path -
Jesus H Christ, do people actually read that sort of stuff, much less understand it? :~ I absolutely refuse to believe things need to be even half as complicated... Anyway, thanks... got something working by ignoring DNS altogether in the end, and just setting "Multiple identities for this website" in the advanced website settings in IIS manager! Seems to work, except not for subdomains, which is a bit of a nuisance but not critical at this stage..
Phil Uribe wrote:
Jesus H Christ, do people actually read that sort of stuff, much less understand it?
:~ :-O Actually I prefer the books from Microsoft press.