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HTTP and HTTPS redirection

BY default... I have SBS 2008 premium and a working

https://remote.domain.com/remote with a level 2 cert installed.

I also have a working ... https://remote.domain.com/owa

These exist at the core in essence.

But I want to have two HTTP URL's that redirect to these for ease.

for example.,

I want.

mail.domain.com to go to https://remote.domain.com/owa
and remote.domain.com to go to https://remote.domain.com.remote.

I am not super savvy in IIS or html coding or any of that mess....

Id this can be done , it has to be SUPER easy and dumbed down. ...

Major respect to someone that can tell me an easy way to do this !

ToBeHonest

Prior to doing this, have you checked out your DNS records? mail.domain.com is most usually used to direct your incoming mail to the exchange server, just think you should consider this first but of course you may already have done that

bhamguy3131

ASKER

ok , yes , there is a MX record already for that ... so yeah ... bad choice...

how about

owa.domain.com is redirected to https://remote.domain.com/owa

lvparkington

1) On internal dns, mail.domain.com should point to the nlp ip of remote.domain.com ?
2) internal outlook clients should use the exchange server name as remote.domain.com

bhamguy3131

ASKER

I dont know what you are asking... exchange already works fine. Just forget about earlier comment about using mail.domain.com for owa...

Restated goal
owa.domain.com is redirected to https://remote.domain.com/owa
and remote.domain.com is redirected to https://remote.domain.com/remote

blaser11981

What you are asking for is called a Sub Domain. From what I gather, you need to do an A record setup in your IIS. There is a good article on this topic here, with the IIS info towards the bottom of the article:
http://content.websitegear.com/article/subdomain_setup.htm

Here is another article, more specific to IIS: http://www.seoconsultants.com/windows/isapi/subdomains/

Roshan Mohammed

have you got any firewalls in between?

bbao

i think you have to put a small HTML file as the default page for each domain name to be redirected, as it is related to changing protocol from HTTP to HTTPS (actually changing the port number), and this is not related to name resolving via DNS which just converts a name string to a IP number.

the HTML source would look like this.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Redirecting to the secured site</TITLE>
<META http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=https://remote.domain.com/owa"></HEAD>
<BODY>
Optional text here.
</BODY>
</HTML>

hope it helps,
bbao

bhamguy3131

ASKER

ok , so i make a notepad... call it .... redirect.htm ... and then I place it precisely where in IIS for each site I want to redirect. ????

bbao

they should be named "index.html" or "default.htm", or check your IIS settings for the file name of DEFAULT page.

bhamguy3131

ASKER

I am not a guru for IIS AT ALLL ... i am on IIS 7.5 pack for IIS 7.0 on an SBS 2008

Can you dumb this down for me please :P

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