Multiple webpages, single IP?

[DougK62]

So my company has several webpages. Most of them are currently hosted by outside companies. We have one that we host here in our building. We now want to bring all of the outside-hosted webpages in-house. I would really like to just use the single IP we have going to our current web server to host these several webpages. What I want done is this:

http://www.xyz.com --> resolves to --> http://12.34.56.78/xyz
http://www.abc.com --> resolves to --> http://12.34.56.78/abc
http://www.def.com --> resolves to --> http://12.34.56.78/def
etc.
etc.

I'm not worried about thhe bandwidth - we're on a T1 and these don't get many hits.

So my question: Is this possible to do with DNS? And if it is, Ii'm open to pointers to get my going in the right direction for implementing this. Windows NT 4.0 Server, IIS 4.0.

Thanks 😀:beer:

 

[Need4Speed]

use host headers

 

[Need4Speed]

BTW, microsoft does have a knowledge base for this sort of thing....

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;190008

 

[HypNoTic]

What you're looking for is called a Reverse Proxy. Take a look at Apache or Squid for that.

 

[Soybomb]

Set the DNS so all of the domain names have an A record for the IP address of your webserver. Then set your webserver up for virtual hosts and it will take care of determining what page was requested and pulling the content from the appropriate directory. I'm not familiar with IIS so I can't tell you how to do that.

 

[spidey07]

Or just use a single A record with the actual host name of the web server and use CNAMEs for all the websites.

That way when (notice I didn't say if, WHEN) your IP address changes it is extremely easy.

Generally you only want one A record for a host in your zone file and aliases for all other names, makes your DNS very clean and simplified.