Multiple ports, same site

Hello,

I would like to find out how to assign multiple ports routed to the same
website in IIS (running on W2K3 Server).

The reason is that I want to access the site (which is BTW Sharepoint
Services) locally from the internal LAN and from the Internet. Different
ports would not be necessary unless our ISP wouldn't block port 80 inbound
(apparently they don't want people to host websites) If I switch to for
example port 8090 the site is available from the Internet side, but then
there are a couple of problems locally (Outlook access etc. .. not working
anymore bacause probably port 80 is expected).

Is it possible to add a second 'virtual' http web server in IIS with another
port but pointing to the same site as the first one which is on default port
80?
If so how should that be done? Is it possible to copy an entire site in IIS,
change the port and point to the same rootfolder?
Or perhaps my idea is wrong and I should find another approach to achieve
this?

Looking forward to find the best solution,

Thenks in advance for your feedback!

Perry

Re: Multiple ports, same site

Hi,

In IIS you can configure multiple bindings for a single website, e.g.

"All Unassigned IP" + Port 80
"All Unassigned IP" + Port 8080

and the website will listen for requests on both those ports. But I think
you probably need to do further configuration in Sharepoint to make it
listen on both those ports.

Cheers
Ken

"Perry Diels" wrote in message
news:241477D2-6837-4EB1-8DA7-9BADED36087A@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> I would like to find out how to assign multiple ports routed to the same
> website in IIS (running on W2K3 Server).
>
> The reason is that I want to access the site (which is BTW Sharepoint
> Services) locally from the internal LAN and from the Internet. Different
> ports would not be necessary unless our ISP wouldn't block port 80 inbound
> (apparently they don't want people to host websites) If I switch to for
> example port 8090 the site is available from the Internet side, but then
> there are a couple of problems locally (Outlook access etc. .. not working
> anymore bacause probably port 80 is expected).
>
> Is it possible to add a second 'virtual' http web server in IIS with
> another port but pointing to the same site as the first one which is on
> default port 80?
> If so how should that be done? Is it possible to copy an entire site in
> IIS, change the port and point to the same rootfolder?
> Or perhaps my idea is wrong and I should find another approach to achieve
> this?
>
> Looking forward to find the best solution,
>
> Thenks in advance for your feedback!
>
> Perry

Re: Multiple ports, same site

Hello Ken,

Thanks for your answer. Can you also tell where exactly the multiple
bindings should be configured. I had a look in the website properties but
could not find it (only one port can be entered).

Regards,
Perry



"Ken Schaefer" wrote in message
news:eO7%23OA6lIHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> In IIS you can configure multiple bindings for a single website, e.g.
>
> "All Unassigned IP" + Port 80
> "All Unassigned IP" + Port 8080
>
> and the website will listen for requests on both those ports. But I think
> you probably need to do further configuration in Sharepoint to make it
> listen on both those ports.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> "Perry Diels" wrote in message
> news:241477D2-6837-4EB1-8DA7-9BADED36087A@microsoft.com...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to find out how to assign multiple ports routed to the same
>> website in IIS (running on W2K3 Server).
>>
>> The reason is that I want to access the site (which is BTW Sharepoint
>> Services) locally from the internal LAN and from the Internet. Different
>> ports would not be necessary unless our ISP wouldn't block port 80
>> inbound (apparently they don't want people to host websites) If I switch
>> to for example port 8090 the site is available from the Internet side,
>> but then there are a couple of problems locally (Outlook access etc. ..
>> not working anymore bacause probably port 80 is expected).
>>
>> Is it possible to add a second 'virtual' http web server in IIS with
>> another port but pointing to the same site as the first one which is on
>> default port 80?
>> If so how should that be done? Is it possible to copy an entire site in
>> IIS, change the port and point to the same rootfolder?
>> Or perhaps my idea is wrong and I should find another approach to achieve
>> this?
>>
>> Looking forward to find the best solution,
>>
>> Thenks in advance for your feedback!
>>
>> Perry
>

Re: Multiple ports, same site

Hello,

Finally I found the "advanced" button in the website properties, which I
previously overlooked for some reason. From here I was able to bind the
second port # and everything works as expected locally as well as from the
Internet. No changes had to be made in the Windows Sharepoint Services.

Thanks for your help, you surely pointed me in he right direction.

Best regards,
Perry




"Ken Schaefer" wrote in message
news:eO7%23OA6lIHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> In IIS you can configure multiple bindings for a single website, e.g.
>
> "All Unassigned IP" + Port 80
> "All Unassigned IP" + Port 8080
>
> and the website will listen for requests on both those ports. But I think
> you probably need to do further configuration in Sharepoint to make it
> listen on both those ports.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> "Perry Diels" wrote in message
> news:241477D2-6837-4EB1-8DA7-9BADED36087A@microsoft.com...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to find out how to assign multiple ports routed to the same
>> website in IIS (running on W2K3 Server).
>>
>> The reason is that I want to access the site (which is BTW Sharepoint
>> Services) locally from the internal LAN and from the Internet. Different
>> ports would not be necessary unless our ISP wouldn't block port 80
>> inbound (apparently they don't want people to host websites) If I switch
>> to for example port 8090 the site is available from the Internet side,
>> but then there are a couple of problems locally (Outlook access etc. ..
>> not working anymore bacause probably port 80 is expected).
>>
>> Is it possible to add a second 'virtual' http web server in IIS with
>> another port but pointing to the same site as the first one which is on
>> default port 80?
>> If so how should that be done? Is it possible to copy an entire site in
>> IIS, change the port and point to the same rootfolder?
>> Or perhaps my idea is wrong and I should find another approach to achieve
>> this?
>>
>> Looking forward to find the best solution,
>>
>> Thenks in advance for your feedback!
>>
>> Perry
>