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Problem with dotnetnuke installed on non standard port.

I've succesfully installed dotnetnuke on port 8080, I'm using windows server 2008.
I've set the port alias table to show the host address www.datamix.co.uk and I've included the host name in the bindings, I've also edited the hosts file to show the server IP, port and host name with separation between each setting. But I can't for the life of me get the site to resolve to the host address. It will resolve to http://localhost:8080/ but not to www.datamix.co.uk

What must I do to get www.datamix.co.uk to resolve the website which is visible locally. I've pinged www.datamix.co.uk and it's giving me the correct IP address, the port is open.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Thanks.

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ErikVB

Dataflow: IIS 7 is very smart, I must admit i kinda wondered why you wanted to use different port numbers, that really sounds more like a windows 2000 kinda solution. Glad you found your solution though.

Your comment about the hosts file is correct, however, if you are not able to set anything in DNS, than hosts file is the only way to make hosts names point to the correct ip addres. It's common practice if you develop on localhost, to enter host names for your different sites in the hosts file (ie. site1.local, site2.local etc)

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Some good points here which I followed up on. Thanks for the tip onforcing a refresh.