IIS 5 and Intranets
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Topic: IIS 5 and Intranets
Posted By: KenW
Subject: IIS 5 and Intranets
Date Posted: 27 November 2004 at 8:16am
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I am not sure if this forum covers intranet connections using IIS 5 on windows XP Professional. But here goes. I have set up an Intranet on a computer called Backofficedell all the other computers are connected to it with My Network Places with the following code file://Backofficedell/shareddocs - \\Backofficedell\shareddocs . Which works fine, however I want to open the intranet when they click on the connection in My Network Places. In the shareddocs folder if they click on a file called index.html the Intranet opens but only displays the html page in their browser not any of the ASP pages although IIS 5 is set up on all the machines. Would setting up a network place with the following code work? \\ Backofficedell\http://localhost\default.asp and would this ensure they were using the IIS on the Backofficedell computer. If this subject is not covered in the forum I apologise and would be great full if someone could point me in the right direction. Thank you, for any help and advise you can give Ken ------------- Ken Home User enjoys ASP as a hobby |
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Posted By: zaboss
Date Posted: 27 November 2004 at 8:37am
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What you have to do is: Create a folder on the server, let's say myintranetsite.com, containing the asp files (application). Make sure that you have an defaul.asp page in the root of the folder. Open the IIS console, go to Default website, right click, New, Virtual Directory. Define an alias to the intranetsite (ex. myintranetsite.com), point it to the folder where you have the files and that's all. Then, people will access the intranet site by typing \\backofficedell\myintranetsite.com ------------- Cristian Banu http://www.soft4web.ro - Soft 4 web |
Posted By: KenW
Date Posted: 27 November 2004 at 10:52am
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Thank you very much for your reply and advice zaboss I am back at work on Thursday when I will try it out and let you know the result.
Many Thanks for your help
Regards
Ken ------------- Ken Home User enjoys ASP as a hobby |
Posted By: KenW
Date Posted: 02 December 2004 at 12:19pm
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Hi
Zaboss
I tried out your suggestion today but unfortunately it did not work.
The site is running fine on my computer but the other computers just get a page cannot be found error. I have tried out the following
file://\\Backofficedell\intranet - \\Backofficedell\intranet
file://\\Backofficedell\intranet\default.asp - \\Backofficedell\intranet\default.asp
a short cut in the shared folders file with the following url
http://localhost/intranet - http://localhost/intranet
http://localhost/intranet/default.asp - http://localhost/intranet/default.asp
but still with no resulting site.
I have also tried placing the folder containing the intranet in My Documents and wwwroot and making a virtual directory but again it works fine on my computer but not the others.
Am I missing something greatful for any help and advice you can give.
Regards
Ken ------------- Ken Home User enjoys ASP as a hobby |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 02 December 2004 at 3:29pm
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Not sure how you are placing files, thus if on your Windows XP Computer you use the default
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\intranet\default.asp and are able to call http://localhost/intranet/default.asp - http://localhost/intranet/default.asp on your Windows XP, you should be able to call http://yourwindowsxpcomputername/intranet/default.asp - http://yourwindowsxpcomputername/intranet/default.asp unless your network is not setup correctly. ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 02 December 2004 at 5:39pm
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Make sure your computer name is in their network connections. ------------- 
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Posted By: KenW
Date Posted: 03 December 2004 at 12:45pm
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Thanks very much for your help Zaboss , Michael and dpyers it is now working fine I don't know what I did on Thursday but everything is working great. Once again thank you all for your advice and help
Regards
Ken ------------- Ken Home User enjoys ASP as a hobby |