Deploy Multiple ASP.NET MVC Sites on the Same Machine

Question

I already have an ASP.NET site running in my Windows Server 2003 (computer name: myserver), so whenever I want to access the site, I would just have to type http://myserver. The issue now is can I host another ASP.NET MVC site on that server 2003 machine? If yes, can I configure the url (http://myserver2?) so that I can access it?

Edit: The Windows Server 2003 is hosting intranet application only. Which is my when they access my original ASP.NET site, they just need to specify http://myserver and that's it.

Answer 1

Set the host header of your website to myserver. Then create another website in IIS and set the host header to myserver2.

Follow the instructions from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324287 for more details.

You will need to add myserver2 to DNS to allow access to it, however you can add it to your hosts file for testing.

Answer 2

Do you mean remotely or locally? If remotely, this is typically done through DNS -- so you'd have:

myserver.com     192.168.0.1
myserver2.com    192.168.0.1

This requires IIS to have appropriate host-headers configured for each site so when the incoming requests come in, IIS knows which website it should go to.

Alternately the classic one-site-per-ip-address way is

myserver.com     192.168.0.1
myserver2.com    192.168.0.2

But this becomes onerous and a bit wasteful unless you have hundreds of IPs sitting around doing nothing.

If I am misunderstanding you, and you want to use local only (vs worldwide) names, it's even simpler.