How to setup an alias in IIS?

Question

I'm a SharePoint developer, so please, bear with me here and I'll provide more information as needed since I'm not sure what I need to specify here!

I'm trying to setup an alias in IIS. I have a hostname for our intranet, http://vshoprspfe:27366 but I want a cname so that http://ccq will point here instead and any URL's within the page start with http://ccq. What should I be researching to learn how to do this?

Solution

You want to set up a binding for the alias. Assuming you already have a CNAME in DNS

• Go into IIS Manager
• Right-click your site and choose Edit Bindings
• Add a new http site binding with the cname in the Host Name box

That said, if you want a URL that does not include the 27366 port number then you will either need to change the site to port 80 or set up a redirect. It's not 100% clear to me if that's what you want, though.

Comments

[user2320464]

For the best user experience, you'll probably want to use URL Rewrite on http (tcp80) and https (tcp443) to redirect requests for ccq to the alternate port.