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I have a www.whatever.com and I just registered a
www.whatever.org. I need to point the www.whatever.org to
the www.whatever.com. After I create the domain
whatever.org in my forward lookup. I create an alias
record with the alias name www and the fully qualified
name for target host should be www.whatever.net or just
whatever.net? Both seem to work when I try it.. but I'm
getting a login window when I open up www.whatever.org in
a browser. Cant seem to figure out what i'm doing wrong.

Thanks
helm
 
..net, .org or .com? :)

I could be wrong, but.....
It seems to me that the website that you are redirecting to
(www.whatever.com) uses host headers because it hosts multiple sites. At
least one of the sites does not use host headers. Now, you are requesting
www.whatever.org, DNS sends the request to THE SERVER HOSTING
www.whatever.com and that servers sees the request for www.whatever.org, it
looks in its headers and doesn't see anything matching that. It then
redirects it to a site that does not use host headers. That site has a
challenge/response authentication, and that is the prompt that you see.

Either that, or the request is crossing your firewall and trying to get back
inside.
--
Sincerely,

Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I
www.akomolafe.com
www.iyaburo.com
Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about
Yesterday? -anon
 
Yes!

You are right on your first assumption. I do have multiple
websites running on this PC.

and... I have whatever.org, whatever.net, whatever.biz,
whatever.info, and whatever.us that all need pointing to
whatever.com

So how do i fix this?


thanks
helm
-----Original Message-----
..net, .org or .com? :)

I could be wrong, but.....
It seems to me that the website that you are redirecting to
(www.whatever.com) uses host headers because it hosts multiple sites. At
least one of the sites does not use host headers. Now, you are requesting
www.whatever.org, DNS sends the request to THE SERVER HOSTING
www.whatever.com and that servers sees the request for
Click to expand...
www.whatever.org, it
 
On the website you are redirecting to, add the new website that you are
redirecting to the list of host headers.

In IIS, this will be done by R-clicking on the Website, then properties,
then on the "Web Site" tab, click on "Advanced". Where it says "Multiple
identities for this web site", click "Add", leave the "IP Address" part at
the default "(alll unassigned)", spcify the port (normally 80, unless you
have a special reason to change it), then type in the NEW www.whatever.net
into the "Host Header Value" and click OK all the way out.

Now, when your webserver receives a request for www.whatever.net, it will
know where to send it to.

HTH

--
Sincerely,

Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I
www.akomolafe.com
www.iyaburo.com
Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about
Yesterday? -anon
Yes!

You are right on your first assumption. I do have multiple
websites running on this PC.

and... I have whatever.org, whatever.net, whatever.biz,
whatever.info, and whatever.us that all need pointing to
whatever.com

So how do i fix this?


thanks
helm
-----Original Message-----
..net, .org or .com? :)

I could be wrong, but.....
It seems to me that the website that you are redirecting to
(www.whatever.com) uses host headers because it hosts multiple sites. At
least one of the sites does not use host headers. Now, you are requesting
www.whatever.org, DNS sends the request to THE SERVER HOSTING
www.whatever.com and that servers sees the request for
Click to expand...
www.whatever.org, it
 
THANKS!

That did the trick!


helm
-----Original Message-----
On the website you are redirecting to, add the new website that you are
redirecting to the list of host headers.

In IIS, this will be done by R-clicking on the Website, then properties,
then on the "Web Site" tab, click on "Advanced". Where it says "Multiple
identities for this web site", click "Add", leave the "IP Address" part at
the default "(alll unassigned)", spcify the port (normally 80, unless you
have a special reason to change it), then type in the NEW www.whatever.net
into the "Host Header Value" and click OK all the way out.

Now, when your webserver receives a request for
Click to expand...
www.whatever.net, it will
 
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