Setting the Hostname in IIS Bindings Breaks Website

iis binding hostname
Josh picture Josh · Jul 30, 2009 · Viewed 45k times · Source

I just got a Windows Server 2008 VPS and I'm having trouble getting IIS7 setup.

I created a new website in IIS with the path, ip address, and hostname (like 'www.nameofsite.com') and click OK. When I browse to the site it pulls up "http://www.nameofsite.com" in the browser and... nothing... IE cannot display this webpage.

If I blank out the hostname in the bindings and click [Browse] it works fine (it takes me to http://10.10.2.92 - the computer's ip). So entering the hostname breaks the website.

Any ideas on what I'm missing? Services I might not have running or roles I'm missing?

No server roles were initially installed on the VPS so I installed IIS, DHCP, DNS, and Application Server... overkill, but I wasn't sure what to install.

Answer

Gary picture Gary · Jul 30, 2009

First it has to be in DNS or the client machines hosts file. To test this you can add the hostname to the servers hosts file.

Go to start -> run and type "drivers" change to the etc directory you want to edit the hosts file. The entries in it are like a local DNS. They only work on the local machine!

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