DNS entry for Internal Portal (so entering "selfservice" takes you to a specific logon page)
We wish to configure are DNS server so that if you enter "selfservice" in the address bar of a browser on an internal machine (even one in a workgroup but on the internal network) the browser will take you to the Self Service Portal logon page at an address such as the one below.
http://server.mydomain.com/folder1/folder2/folder3/myFile.open_ss
We are aware about creating "A" records in DNS to resolve to a machine but would be very grateful for guidance on how to achieve the objective outlined above.
Thanks in advance.
http://server.mydomain.com/folder1/folder2/folder3/myFile.open_ss
We are aware about creating "A" records in DNS to resolve to a machine but would be very grateful for guidance on how to achieve the objective outlined above.
Thanks in advance.
DNS is only for translation of names to ip addresses. Redirection to different URLs is a matter of the http protocol instead (or possibly via meta tags a matter of html content).
You need an A record (or absolutely equivalently a CNAME record) in DNS to point to some webserver.
On that webserver you need a (virtual) host named "selfservice" and probably with only one single document that redirects to the target URL (or some mechanism that emits a http-redirect with the same purpose).
Perhaps your server.mydomain.com webserver already automatically redirects from http:s//server.mydomain.com/ to the login page. In that case, it should suffice to let the DNS record for selfservice point to the same address and make sure that the webserver responds to the hostname selfservce as well.
You need an A record (or absolutely equivalently a CNAME record) in DNS to point to some webserver.
On that webserver you need a (virtual) host named "selfservice" and probably with only one single document that redirects to the target URL (or some mechanism that emits a http-redirect with the same purpose).
Perhaps your server.mydomain.com webserver already automatically redirects from http:s//server.mydomain.com/ to the login page. In that case, it should suffice to let the DNS record for selfservice point to the same address and make sure that the webserver responds to the hostname selfservce as well.
Forgot to mention the redirect -
Set the default page in IIS to folder1/folder2/folder3/my
Set the default page in IIS to folder1/folder2/folder3/my
<html>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" content= "0;URL=http://server.mydomain.com/folder1/folder2/folder3/myFile.open_ss">
</htmlASKER
We have created an A record in DNS for the "selfservice". The A record points to the machine where the portal sits.
On typing "selfservice" into a browser and pressing enter we get an "IIS7 welcome message" even with trying the suggestion about the html coding above.
Can anyone shed any light on this please?
On typing "selfservice" into a browser and pressing enter we get an "IIS7 welcome message" even with trying the suggestion about the html coding above.
Can anyone shed any light on this please?
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In DHCP make sure you have option 015 Set with your internal domain name (same as the zone you created the CName record in.) This sets the DNS suffix search for DHCP clients. On static clients that are not in the domain you will have to add the dns search suffix manually or they will have to use the FQDN. This does not apply to domain joined workstations as they will search their own suffix automatically.
On the server you are trying to access you may have to make the following registry key change (I don't think this applies to HTTP access, only to accessing shares and other resources via CName)
HKLM\System\CurrentControl
DisableLoopbackCheck = 1 (REG_DWORD)
Also, if you are using SSL make sure the cert is issued to selfservice.mydomain.local