Hi,
I have a CMS production server with Host Header mappings set so that
http://www.a.com, http://www.b.com etc will map to the channels named
www.a.com, www.b.com etc.

Now in order for my deployment from authoring to production to work
correctly, I need to have the channels named www.a.com etc on the
authoring server also. I would also have to set host header mappings
since i cannot have www after a domain.com/ as the URL would be
invalid. (ie) on the box i cannot have localhost/www.a.com and from
outside it cannot be [servername]/www.a.com

The problem is now two fold
1) within the company , if my users want to login to the authoring
box, they cannot type in www.a.com since that will take them to the
external site. So we planned to have something like authoring.a.com
and authoring.b.com and then use a URL rewrite on the authoring server
to point to www.a.com. But this causes problem 2

2) if the URL rewrite points to www.a.com, wont the request be
directed straight to production?

If i have an internal DNS server and an external DNS server then my
users cannot go to the external company website since the DNS server
would redirect them to the internal authoring server instead.

The only way i can see around this is to not name the channels on
authoring or production with www at all. I would need to place
redirects on the production server also, but that would play havoc
with my users URL's.

Any thoughts ? Has anyone come across and circumvented this problem ?

TIA
Ben

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Hi Ben,

either use a host file on your machine to define which machine is hit with
your domain name or implement the following workaround to allow to use
different domain names but hit the same channel:
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...>
MCMS+2002+-+(complete)+FAQ.htm#477EA7E7-CA78-456B-BC4D-B3E3AE832ABE

Be aware that this workaround only works correct if the following hotfix is
installed:
824597

Cheers,
Stefan.

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"Ben" <benjy@allfreetech.com> wrote in message
news:50f80390.0402270425.4bd6b48d@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
> I have a CMS production server with Host Header mappings set so that
> http://www.a.com, http://www.b.com etc will map to the channels named
> www.a.com, www.b.com etc.
>
> Now in order for my deployment from authoring to production to work
> correctly, I need to have the channels named www.a.com etc on the
> authoring server also. I would also have to set host header mappings
> since i cannot have www after a domain.com/ as the URL would be
> invalid. (ie) on the box i cannot have localhost/www.a.com and from
> outside it cannot be [servername]/www.a.com
>
> The problem is now two fold
> 1) within the company , if my users want to login to the authoring
> box, they cannot type in www.a.com since that will take them to the
> external site. So we planned to have something like authoring.a.com
> and authoring.b.com and then use a URL rewrite on the authoring server
> to point to www.a.com. But this causes problem 2
>
> 2) if the URL rewrite points to www.a.com, wont the request be
> directed straight to production?
>
> If i have an internal DNS server and an external DNS server then my
> users cannot go to the external company website since the DNS server
> would redirect them to the internal authoring server instead.
>
> The only way i can see around this is to not name the channels on
> authoring or production with www at all. I would need to place
> redirects on the production server also, but that would play havoc
> with my users URL's.
>
> Any thoughts ? Has anyone come across and circumvented this problem ?
>
> TIA
> Ben

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