website address

I am working on a sql reporting services project and would like to know how
to rename a website address. The address for sql reports is
http://localhost/reports, how can i make this something like
http://ryan/reports or http://company/reports? I need to change the
reference of the localhost (server name).

Thanks,

Ryan

Re: website address

Ryan,
This is achieved through your DNS. Your web site actually only has an IP
address, not a name. DNS is translating names to that IP address. So any and
all names that you set up in DNS to point to that address will work.
There are three qualifications to that:
- if you use a certificate for SSL, the browser will warn you if the name
you are requesting is not the same as the name on the certificate.
- if you have multiple different sites on one IP address, then you would use
a host header to differentiate them, and then a site will respond according
to the name the browser requested
- browser authentication methods are slightly different depending on what
actual name is in the list of Trusted or Intranet sites.
So in answer to your question, in your DNS set up ryan and company as
aliases of the server host,
Hope that helps,
Anthony,
http://www.airdesk.com




"Ryan Mcbee" wrote in message
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>I am working on a sql reporting services project and would like to know how
> to rename a website address. The address for sql reports is
> http://localhost/reports, how can i make this something like
> http://ryan/reports or http://company/reports? I need to change the
> reference of the localhost (server name).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan