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Martin Hope
Russ Giddings
Asked: 2009-07-29 01:25:47 +0800 CST
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Simple question - what is the best practice to implement a sharepoint web application that needs to be accessible through two domain names (hostnames, i.e abc123.com and www.abc123.com)?

From my experience the options are as follows:-

  1. Create a SP web app with abc123.com as the hostname and extend this SP web app to a different zone. Assign www.abc123.com to the extended web app.
  2. Create a SP web app with abc123.com as the hostname. Add www.abc123.com as an additional hostname to the web app through IIS Admin.
  3. Create a SP web app with abc123.com as the hostname. Create a new website through IIS Admin and associate www.abc123.com with the new website. Set the IIS website to permanently redirect to the following URL - http://abc123.com$V$Q

Let me know your opinions on these and if you know of other option no matter whether they are better or worse.

Thanks in advance Russell

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Martin Hope
Russ Giddings
Asked: 2009-07-24 06:22:50 +0800 CST
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I have a SharePoint farm with two WFEs. I have 1 web app with anonymous access enabled and windows authentication and 1 site collection within the web app. I have extended the web app to internet zone using same windows auth mechanism and anonymous access to enable calls coming in on two different hostnames (abc123.com and www.abc123.com) using alternate access mapping.

When I access the original web app url (abc123.com) via either WFE it works fine When I access the extended web app url (www.abc123.com) on one box it redirects to /pages/default.aspx and works fine on the other WFE it fails with a 404 and doesnt redirect.

Any ideas what the problem could be or areas I could check? Cheers Russell

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Martin Hope
Russ Giddings
Asked: 2009-07-10 07:15:29 +0800 CST
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We have a SharePoint MOSS 2007 installation which has two different external hostnames. When inspecting the setup I've noticed that there are two Alternate Access Mapping Collections mapped to the same web application. Each AAM collection contains one url mapped to the default zone.

I can't see how AAM collections are mapped to web apps or even how to create a new AAM collection. I've always thought that there was just a one to one mapping between web apps and AAM collections.

Does anyone have any idea as to how you would create such a situation?

Cheers Russell

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