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Asked: 2020-03-19 09:52:06 +0800 CST

IIS website opening outside of server, but not internally

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I have multiple sites hosted within an IIS server. Let me give you an example like:

demo.trial.com and demo.web.com

Under both these websites, I have created multiple pages like

trial1 under demo.trial.com and page1 under demo.web.com

The intention is that I should be able to browse demo.trial.com/trial1 and demo.web.com/page1. And I am able to do both these from my laptop.

The problem is that I am able to browse demo.trial.com/trial1 within the server without any issues, but browsing demo.web.com/page1 within the server shows me page cant be displayed. The bindings as well as other settings are same in both the websites, but not sure why demo.web.com/page1 is not opening within the server, but opens outside the server.

Any help would really be appreciated.

amazon-ec2 iis windows-server-2012

1 Answers

  1. My first guess is that the server (and it's browser) are unaware that demo.web.com is hosted locally. My recommendation would be to add the following record to the c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file:

    127.0.0.1  demo.web.com
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