[thelist] creating a subdomain for a website (win2k)

[Chris W. Parker]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Judah McAuley [mailto:judah at wiredotter.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 5:15 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] creating a subdomain for a website (win2k)
>
>
> Alright, you should have the following:
>
> There should be 2 IIS website entries.  One for
> www.domain.com that has
> a home directory pointing to the current version of the live site.
>
> You should also now have a new website entry that has a home directory
> pointing to e:\devsg\

what i did in the vey beginning was right-click the server and choose
New > Website

so now i have what looks like this...

+-webServer
  |
  +--www.domain.com
  |
  +--dev.domain.com

should i have chosen New > Virtual Directory under www.domain.com ? that
just didn't seem right since i don't want a directory, but rather a
site.

> In that new website entry when you right-click and open up the
> properties and then click on Advanced you should have an entry in the
> top part of the window that shows (All Unassigned) under IP Address
> (this could also be 10.0.0.3, it doesn't matter), 80 under
> TCP Port, and
> dev.domain.com under Host Header Name.

yes, this is correct.

> Click on Home Directory and make sure that its pointing to e:\devsg\

yes it is.

> In your HOSTS file on your local machine (located in
> C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts if you are running Win2K Pro) you
> should have an entry that says
>
> 10.0.0.3 dev.domain.com

yes, it is as you say.

> You will need to kill all running IE processes on your local machine
> when you change information in the hosts file just to make sure it
> doesn't cache information.

i did this also.

> Then you should be able to go to http://dev.domain.com/ and it should
> bring up your index.asp page.  If it does not, make sure that
> index.asp
> is listed as a default page for that IIS entry.  This is located under
> the Documents tab in the properties for that website entry.

instead of working correctly, it shows me www.domain.com instead of
dev.domain.com.


hopefully this time i've presented the mistake i made.


thanks,
chris.