Hi,

I'm having a strange problem with host headers that I hope someone might be 
able to shed some light on.

I have a web server (windows 2000 server - up to date patches) with one IP a
ddress.  

I have two domains, a main one and a another website so lets say:

main.co.uk  and
other.org.uk

I have dns for both (maintained by third party) and all subdomains pointing 
to my IP.

I want  these addresses to go to the other website:

other.org.uk
www.other.org.uk
other.main.co.uk

Initially I had just other.main.co.uk set in host headers pointing to the other webspac
e (while the other.org.uk transfer was taking place).  Once the transfer happened I add
ed other.org.uk and www.other.org.uk to the "multiple identities for this we
bsite" dialogue in the advanced section of the website config.  

Unfortunately, IIS seems only to take into account the first two host header
 settings, with the third being ignored and just going to the main site.

Anyone got any ideas?  Is it something to do with the fact that I don't have
 hostheaders defined for the main site? Or that I'm using "All Unasigned" in
 the for the IP?  A bug?

Thanks!

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Hi,

Can you please use WFetch from the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit tools, and set it
up like this:

Host: Ip of webserver
Path: /default.htm (or some other file on the website)
Advanced Request: Add Headers, write:

Host: www.other.org.uk\r\n

Click Go.

I assume that www.other.org.uk was the one that you are having problems
with.
Does this give you the page of the website?

I want you to do this to make sure that DNS lookup is true DNS and not
some forwarding service that does not send the host header field.

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Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert
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www.ilopia.com


sosh wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a strange problem with host headers that I hope someone
> might be able to shed some light on.
>
> I have a web server (windows 2000 server - up to date patches) with one
> IP address.
>
> I have two domains, a main one and a another website so lets say:
>
> main.co.uk  and
> other.org.uk
>
> I have dns for both (maintained by third party) and all subdomains
> pointing to my IP.
>
> I want  these addresses to go to the other website:
>
> other.org.uk
> www.other.org.uk
> other.main.co.uk
>
> Initially I had just other.main.co.uk set in host headers pointing to
> the other webspace (while the other.org.uk transfer was taking place).
> Once the transfer happened I added other.org.uk and www.other.org.uk to
> the "multiple identities for this website" dialogue in the advanced
> section of the website config.
>
> Unfortunately, IIS seems only to take into account the first two host
> header settings, with the third being ignored and just going to the
> main site.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?  Is it something to do with the fact that I don't
> have hostheaders defined for the main site? Or that I'm using "All
> Unasigned" in the for the IP?  A bug?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> --
> sosh
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Hi,

Thanks for your response.  I'm unable to run any tools from the IIS6 resourc
e kit however as I'm on Windows 2000 server, and it wont install.  I'm almos
t certain that  we have a true DNS setup though, I know the guys that manage
 the DNS server, and the domain lives with them, not some other registrar.  
Also host headers do work when there are only two host header identities set
 up.

Thanks

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