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Browse All TopicsI have a server sitting on the inside of my firewall with a Private IP number and the name portal. It is running SharePoint. I have a NAT rule in my firewall that routes a public IP number that is associated in the state DNS records with a server called portal.whatever.something.
My thinking is, I should be able to migrate the files to the server called spportal on my internal network, change the IP on the spportal server to the Private IP number that portal was using. Create a name (cname??) record in my AD DNS to associate its IP with the name portal and reinstall portal with new OS and name.
What Im not sure of (or have forgotten because I havent worked on it in a month and ½) is how to make the webserver running believe its name is portal not spportal.
This is all in
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by: ambot13Posted on 2009-11-06 at 09:46:44ID: 25761255
If I understand your question correctly, you want a new server to answer to the name "portal" - please correct me.
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There are two parts:
1. directing the client to the right server using DNS
2. having the server answer to that name by displaying the right web page.
You have #1 right. For #2 you need a host header. In IIS 7 that's called site bindings. Here's the how-to: http://technet.microsoft.c