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knudholt · Junior Member Joined: 04 Mar 2003 Posts: 1

I am new to this web hosting business but I think everything is set up correctly.
I have Homeing Beacon running on a win2k server with IIS...I can ping the Host name and get a positive result...I put a web page in the Inetpub dir under a dir and when I type in the url I have never gotten a page to display...I have host headers set up and the correct ports but I can not get the page to load...Any ideas or for more info ...I will be happy to respond...

master · Posted: 05-06-2003 06:58 AM Post subject:

Try this from the local machine that is running the web server:

Open a command prompt.

Type 'TELNET 127.0.0.1 80' and then hit enter.

You should get a blank screen - hit enter twice.

The http process should spit out some text. If it does then the server is listening - if it does not then the server is not listening correctly.

Can you post the hostname so I can test it from here?

Sam

cpuz3 · Junior Member Joined: 31 May 2003 Posts: 6

ok knudholt, what you have to do to set-up a "website' is to open the Internet Information Services Manager (IIS). The default website is one of the things displayed in the MMC window when you double click on your server in the navigation window.

From there, you should then right click on the "default website" icon and select "properties". The properties for this site will then be displayed. Next, click on the "advanced" button (to the left of the IP address field) now you can add, modify or delete what are called "host headers", that is you can enter yourdomain.com and [url]www.yourdomain.com,[/url] and as long their is a DNS host record set-up for that domain, it will resolve to that site. Just make sure all host headers are set to port 80. The only downfall to IIS is that only one of your sites per server can be configured to use SSL on port 443, so use it wisely. You can configure about 250 sites within IIS.

The directory that your "default website" uses can be found at
X:InetPubwwwroot.
( where X= the drive that has the InetPub directory)
So I would recommend that you dump your html or htm files into this directory, to make things simple at first.

If you need anymore help you can directly email me. [email]support@shalercom.net[/email]

Ed Trdina