Stueyb

Hi peeps,

Heres a quick question I hope. I have 14 sites that I want to host on one my new dedi boxes. How do you do it under 2003. Please dont tell me I have to run my own dns server on the box

ChrisB

14 sites as in web sites?

Use Host Headers under IIS for HTTP - can't use them if you need SSL HTTPS traffic.

David_Wallis

if choose properties on TCP/IP and then click advanced, you can add the IP's to the server.

You can then assign the IP address to the site when creating it.

Probably not the best way of doing it though.

We have to do some sites this way for FTP though.

David

ozzy

You could use a local hosts file if you just need the web server to resolve the site names.

stevencotton

You can use SSL on each different host since they will have seperate IP addresses, it's only name based virtual hosting, many hosts on the same IP, when you can't (well, one of them could, but not the rest )

David_Wallis

you can have multiple sites and ip's including ssl on one iis server.

ChrisB

Indeed, but you can't use the same IP for multiple SSL sites.

If the sites are just normal HTTP, then you don't really need 14 IPs in the first place. Use host headers.

David_Wallis

Correct.

David

Stueyb

the reason I have 14 ips is that each site is on a different ip because it aids SEO in certain ways.

stevem2k

1. Format
2. install <insert linux distro of choice>
3. "man ifconfig"

stevencotton

It isn't quite that simple.

ChrisB

Interesting - as per David's post #3 then.