Unable to get more than one site working

Hi everyone:

Im running IIS 6 in 2003 server.

I had one site (default) working correctly but when I try to add some more
sites, they keep stopped and when trying to start them, get the error:

"IIS cannot start site. Ist possible that another site is using the port you
selected for this site. Select one unused port. ( My system is in spanish so
translation maybe not 100% acurate.)

In the system event viewer i get this error: One of the IP/port combinations
for site 'lot of numbers here' has been already setup for another site. SSL
config for the other site will be used.

All sites on tihis machine, use SSL and have their own certificate, but
cannot start both sites together.

Any ideas?

Re: Unable to get more than one site working

"Max" wrote in message
news:814A9420-0F32-4FD6-A2C5-E95BA9508B14@microsoft.com...
> Hi everyone:
>
> Im running IIS 6 in 2003 server.
>
> I had one site (default) working correctly but when I try to add some more
> sites, they keep stopped and when trying to start them, get the error:
>
> "IIS cannot start site. Ist possible that another site is using the port
> you
> selected for this site. Select one unused port. ( My system is in spanish
> so
> translation maybe not 100% acurate.)
>
> In the system event viewer i get this error: One of the IP/port
> combinations
> for site 'lot of numbers here' has been already setup for another site.
> SSL
> config for the other site will be used.
>
> All sites on tihis machine, use SSL and have their own certificate, but
> cannot start both sites together.
>
> Any ideas?

Yeah. Read the error out loud. It's telling you exactly what is wrong.
You are trying to run more than one site on the same IP and port.

To run more than one site on the same IP, you need to learn how to use
something called "host headers". In a nutshell, just take "all unassigned"
off all the web sites and add a hostname and IP mapped together.

Re: Unable to get more than one site working

On Jul 2, 6:46 am, Max wrote:
> Hi everyone:
>
> Im running IIS 6 in 2003 server.
>
> I had one site (default) working correctly but when I try to add some more
> sites, they keep stopped and when trying to start them, get the error:
>
> "IIS cannot start site. Ist possible that another site is using the port you
> selected for this site. Select one unused port. ( My system is in spanish so
> translation maybe not 100% acurate.)
>
> In the system event viewer i get this error: One of the IP/port combinations
> for site 'lot of numbers here' has been already setup for another site. SSL
> config for the other site will be used.
>
> All sites on tihis machine, use SSL and have their own certificate, but
> cannot start both sites together.
>
> Any ideas?


The event log error tells you the problem. You are configuring
multiple websites to bind to the same IP:Port:Host header combination,
which is invalid. If you do not understand why, then think about this
-- can two different houses (websites) have the same postal address
(IP:Port). If they can, how do you distinguish them to deliver mail to
the right house (Host header)?

If you are using SSL, then those websites *must* each have distinct
IP:Port combination because they have their own certificate.


//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
//

Re: Unable to get more than one site working

".._.." wrote:

> Yeah. Read the error out loud. It's telling you exactly what is wrong.
> You are trying to run more than one site on the same IP and port.
>
> To run more than one site on the same IP, you need to learn how to use
> something called "host headers". In a nutshell, just take "all unassigned"
> off all the web sites and add a hostname and IP mapped together.
>
I know, thats just the way it was configured, this way i can get the http
sites working but no the https.

Re: Unable to get more than one site working

"David Wang" wrote:

> On Jul 2, 6:46 am, Max wrote:
> > Hi everyone:
> >
> > Im running IIS 6 in 2003 server.
> >
> > I had one site (default) working correctly but when I try to add some more
> > sites, they keep stopped and when trying to start them, get the error:
> >
> > "IIS cannot start site. Ist possible that another site is using the port you
> > selected for this site. Select one unused port. ( My system is in spanish so
> > translation maybe not 100% acurate.)
> >
> > In the system event viewer i get this error: One of the IP/port combinations
> > for site 'lot of numbers here' has been already setup for another site. SSL
> > config for the other site will be used.
> >
> > All sites on tihis machine, use SSL and have their own certificate, but
> > cannot start both sites together.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
>
> The event log error tells you the problem. You are configuring
> multiple websites to bind to the same IP:Port:Host header combination,
> which is invalid. If you do not understand why, then think about this
> -- can two different houses (websites) have the same postal address
> (IP:Port). If they can, how do you distinguish them to deliver mail to
> the right house (Host header)?
>
> If you are using SSL, then those websites *must* each have distinct
> IP:Port combination because they have their own certificate.
>
>
> //David
> http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> //
>
>

A deeper search determines that SSL doesn't support host headers, so I will
have to use different ports.

Thanks for ypur replyes.