iis - cname - start page when using domain and content using www.domain

Question

I configured a domain on IIS 7.5 with windows 2008 r2 and put an index.html file on the inetpub/wwwroot/domain folder.

When I browse the webpage currently I´m receiving two different pages:

• using domain.com I receive the iistart.htm welcome page.

• using www.domain.com I receive the index.html file I created.

I create the CNAME pointing www.domain.com to domain.com in order to serve content using both addresses´s.

ADDITIONAL INFO:

When using domain.com it points to the Default Web Site created by default by IIS 7.5. I realized about that when I stopped that site.

Answer 1

I found the reason. Despite creating the CNAME record in my DNS, IIS needs bindings for both www.domain.com and domain.com for each website.