making mywebsite.com work locally

[Jason Gallas]

I have a website we'll call mywebsite.com. Internally I have it setup with
a dns forward lookup and an alias www. www.mywebsite.com works great but
mywebsite.com by itself does not. I have host headers setup for the website
as I have other websites on the same server. How can I get mywebsite.com to
also work in the browser locally. On the internet everything works fine,
I'm just having this problem internally.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Since you're using the same AD domain name as your Internet domain name, it
is really going to be a lot easier just to tell users to use
www.mywebsite.com -

 

[Jason Gallas]

How would I go about doing it internally if I wanted to? This isn't our AD
domain by the way, it is another domain used just for the website.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
: Since you're using the same AD domain name as your Internet domain name,
it
: is really going to be a lot easier just to tell users to use
: www.mywebsite.com -
:
:
: Jason Gallas wrote:
: > I have a website we'll call mywebsite.com. Internally I have it
: > setup with a dns forward lookup and an alias www. www.mywebsite.com
: > works great but mywebsite.com by itself does not. I have host
: > headers setup for the website as I have other websites on the same
: > server. How can I get mywebsite.com to also work in the browser
: > locally. On the internet everything works fine, I'm just having this
: > problem internally.
:
:

 

[Jeff Cochran]

I have a website we'll call mywebsite.com. Internally I have it setup with
a dns forward lookup and an alias www. www.mywebsite.com works great but
mywebsite.com by itself does not. I have host headers setup for the website
as I have other websites on the same server. How can I get mywebsite.com to
also work in the browser locally. On the internet everything works fine,
I'm just having this problem internally.

You need a blank host record in your DNS for that domain, pointing to
the IP of the web server. You also need a host header in that site
for the mywebsite.com name as well as the www.mywebsite.com header.

You may need to delete the root domain (the "." one) to create the
blank record, and in AD it's kind of an issue to do so.

Jeff

 

[Jason Gallas]

Thanks a lot, that's what I needed!

: On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:03:33 -0800, "Jason Gallas"
:
: >I have a website we'll call mywebsite.com. Internally I have it setup
with
: >a dns forward lookup and an alias www. www.mywebsite.com works great but
: >mywebsite.com by itself does not. I have host headers setup for the
website
: >as I have other websites on the same server. How can I get mywebsite.com
to
: >also work in the browser locally. On the internet everything works fine,
: >I'm just having this problem internally.
:
: You need a blank host record in your DNS for that domain, pointing to
: the IP of the web server. You also need a host header in that site
: for the mywebsite.com name as well as the www.mywebsite.com header.
:
: You may need to delete the root domain (the "." one) to create the
: blank record, and in AD it's kind of an issue to do so.
:
: Jeff

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood. Glad you were able to get help from Jeff.

How would I go about doing it internally if I wanted to? This isn't
our AD domain by the way, it is another domain used just for the
website.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

Since you're using the same AD domain name as your Internet domain
name, it is really going to be a lot easier just to tell users to use
www.mywebsite.com -