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Web Publishing more than 1 Web Site - 1.Feb.2001 12:50:00 PM

sfaryu

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I would like to Publish at least 10 sites behind the ISA server. I'm running ISA (final Enterprise Edition). All sites has separate IPs and domain names. I was able to publish one site and I noticed that to publish additional sites, I need to add additional IPs in the external NIC. I want to know is there a way for me to publish those sites without adding the physical IPs to the NIC? Does ISA allow you to put the IPs inside it?

TIA

Tom

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RE: Web Publishing more than 1 Web Site - 1.Feb.2001 8:03:00 PM

tshinder

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Just add destination sets for each web site and put a single IP address in the DNS for all the sites. Then create a web publishing rule for each of the sites. That should do it!

Tom

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RE: Web Publishing more than 1 Web Site - 2.Feb.2001 12:43:00 PM

sfaryu

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Hi Tom,

Bear with me if I'm wrong. I'm using the DNS from my ISP, how can I add an entry to the DNS. I'm not running any DNS server on my network. Plus, I cannot use a single IP for all the sites because each site has it's own FQDN (domain names). I'm a little confused on your posting, maybe you can elaborate a little bit more. Thanks.

Thomas

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RE: Web Publishing more than 1 Web Site - 3.Feb.2001 11:00:00 AM

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If you want your web sites to be publicly available via a FQDN, there must be a publicly available entry into the DNS to allow internet hosts to resolve the name to an IP addresss. Therefore, you must have DNS entries somewhere that resolve you FQDNs to an IP address. Your ISP can host the DNS, or you can host your own DNS. If you host your own, you must still register your DNS Server so that other DNS Server are aware that its authoritative for your domains.

All the DNS entries can point to a single IP address on your external interface. When the request arrives at your external interface, ISA Server can evaluate the information in the HTTP header information to see to which site the request is destined. If there is a publishing rule for the site, the ISA Server will forward the request.

In order to publish the sites, you must first create a destination set for each site, which is a policy element. After creating the policy element, you can create the Web Publishing Policy.

HTH,
Tom

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RE: Web Publishing more than 1 Web Site - 4.Feb.2001 3:20:00 PM

Ehud Tam

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Hey there!
Where is the IIS Server located? same as ISA?
If it is located behind the ISA server, how do you handle internal traffic? usually you gotta have a DNS server for internal use (Win2000 must have DNS to operate Active Directory).
So, in the internal DNS, you have to create A and records for all "Web Sites" you intend to publish, so that the ISA server itself would find the IIS server.
In IIS, use Host Headers to differentiate between all web sites, this way you'd be able to use the same IP address for all sites.
Create Destination Sets for all published sites, and allow Web Publishing to these Sets.
That should solve the problem, that's how I'm able to host many web sites on my server.
I hope it was clear, if you have any questions, I'd be more than happy to help.

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Originally posted by tshinder:
If you want your web sites to be publicly available via a FQDN, there must be a publicly available entry into the DNS to allow internet hosts to resolve the name to an IP addresss. Therefore, you must have DNS entries somewhere that resolve you FQDNs to an IP address. Your ISP can host the DNS, or you can host your own DNS. If you host your own, you must still register your DNS Server so that other DNS Server are aware that its authoritative for your domains.
All the DNS entries can point to a single IP address on your external interface. When the request arrives at your external interface, ISA Server can evaluate the information in the HTTP header information to see to which site the request is destined. If there is a publishing rule for the site, the ISA Server will forward the request.
In order to publish the sites, you must first create a destination set for each site, which is a policy element. After creating the policy element, you can create the Web Publishing Policy.
HTH,
Tom

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