IIS advice setting up multiple websites

[Zourous]

Please excuse me as this is not my area of expertise, but I'm sure it is something easy for those more familar with it.

 

I'm just moving our liberum helpdesks from W2003 server to W2016 server. I've managed to set-up two websites within IIS 10 which will represent our helpdesks for Network Support and the Site team as follows:

 

hdesktest (Network Support)

SThelpdesk (Site Team)

 

I noticed that when I set-up the first one (hdesktest) when I browsed to it I only needed to type "http:/servername" and it went straight to what I expected it be "http:/servername/hdesktest/rep". At the same time I can't navigate to the same place if I type "http:/servername/hdesktest/rep" directly in.

 

This wasn't too much a problem until I entered the second helpdesk of (STHelpdesk). I now can't get to any part of this site.

[dapaulio]

Sounds like a redirect maybe which has been set when the first site was installed

 

Under c:\inetpub\wwwroot\

Is there a iisstart.htm

 

In iis click on default web site and click on http redirect. Clear the contents.

 

This is the page that should load if you type http://server

 

Have you got separate sub folders for each one of your sites with its own index.php or htm

 

In iis you should have a application directory for each subfolder. There for http://server/helpdesk and http://server/Sthelpdesk

Edited June 29, 2017 by dapaulio

[Zourous]

Many thanks I'll try that tomorrow.

[Zourous]

Under c:\inetpub\wwwroot\

Is there a iisstart.htm

 

Yes there is. Is it meant to be there?

 

In iis click on default web site and click on http redirect. Clear the contents.

 

In iis6 on the old server, the default website exists but not on the iis10 on the new server.

 

Have you got separate sub folders for each one of your sites with its own index.php or htm

 

Yes both helpdesks are set-up as two different websites in their own right. There is no index file of any sort. I've just copied the files over from the old server where they worked before.

 

In iis you should have a application directory for each subfolder. There for http://server/helpdesk and http://server/Sthelpdesk

 

I don't have any applications directories. Both these helpdesks are in asp if that helps?

[Zourous]

I wondered if it had something to do with bindings, but when I input "hdesktest" & "STHelpdesk" as their respective hostnames, nothing worked.

[dapaulio]

Did you try looking at the http redirect.

Click on default website in nav pane

Click on http redirect.

[Zourous]

Couldn't find http redirect to start with but soon discovered that I had to add it in. As soon as I configure anything in here I just loose any access that I had before.