[Solved] How do I make a website public

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Hi,

This is a noob question, for sure, but it's never come up. I've always had dedicated servers that were pre-configured and for intranet use only :S

So, I have just pushed a website to my clients UAT server. These guys have no local network so they can only access the machine via the internet.

I can get access to the server via the IP, but there is already another website running!

I need a way that I can have them access my website via that IP. Do I need to set it up as a virtual directory in the website that already exists?

Also: just to make this less simple, my site relies on subdomains for user protals (so admin.mysite.com and agent.mysite.com etc) How can I achieve this? I'm guessing I'll have to set up the bindings on the existing site?

Thanks, and sorry for the noob question :/

Andy

Posted 12-Jun-15 5:03am

Andy Lanng

Updated 12-Jun-15 5:26am

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hypermellow 12-Jun-15 11:16am

Hi, you can host multiple IIS sites on a single server/IP address, by not binding any of the sites to a single IP address, and by making sure you specify a different host header for each site.

Andy Lanng 12-Jun-15 11:20am

ok. cool. Do you know of any further reading so I can make sense of that :Þ
Like I said, I really have never had to do this so I'm a proper n00b and I don't know any terminology :S
Thanks ^_^

hypermellow 12-Jun-15 11:23am

It's really easy, and can all be done via the IIS Manager GUI. Here's a technet article with the steps.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753195%28WS.10%29.aspx

Andy Lanng 12-Jun-15 11:25am

Awesome - Thanks ^_^

hypermellow 12-Jun-15 11:29am

no problem, let me know how you get on?
... just make sure you get the correct hostheader(s) for your existing site setup before you add a new site. :-)

Andy Lanng 12-Jun-15 11:35am

I will do. I have let the client know. It's not as urgent as 'making changes to a web server on a friday afternoon' is bad, so we'll wait for monday. I'll read up over the weekend and try a few thinks locally.

hypermellow 12-Jun-15 11:40am

Good plan, Friday disasters always happen at 4:45pm ... and it's approaching that time of the week!
If you need a hand on Monday, give me shout, have a good weekend.

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