Help me with my DNS!

Im really struggling here ar work!
I have set up a 2nd intranet site on our server. Our first Intranet site works fine.
In IIS it has a virtual directory and an actual web site.
This is called megabytes.
You can get to megabytes by just typing in "megabytes" in the URL.

The new site I have added in the same way. It is called "Mantis"
However when you type in "Mantis" in the URL it says THE PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED - Cannot find server or DNS Error.

I checked the hosts file on the server, and it has the 2 entries I added.

If I type the server IP address followed by the site name, it works fine.
(i.e. http://10.0.0.225/mantis)

But I want to just type http://mantis


So somehow I need to work out what I need to do to get DNS working.

Im running ISA server if that makes any difference!

Any help is appreciated!

Andy

This is not a dns really a dns issue. You should be looking into url redirection. Something of the sort.

Your main website works if you just type http://megabytes because the machine name is probably called megabytes, and your main website is at the default web root. Therefore you can access the website by just giving the name of the machine...

mantis is on the same host, but in a non-default location. You can probably access it by using: http://megabytes/mantis

You must understand that dns is only used to make the relationship between a name and an IP address. That's all. It can not be used for url redirection. You will need to find your answer in IIS...mantis is not a machine name. It is a virutal web foder on a machine.

Cheers

Thanks for the reply but.....

No. The machine is called server01. If I type server01 in I get my default webpage set up for OWA.
If I type Megabytes, I get the megabytes intranet.
So based on that fact, I would expect to hit mantis by typing mantis in the url.
If I type http://10.0.0.225/mantis it works.
If I type http://10.0.0.225/megabytes it works.

If I type http://megabytes its works
if I type http://mantis it does not!!!!

HELLLLP!

Any ideas
Cheers!

Don't think I'm stubborn, but your problem is not coming from a dns issue. As I said, your answer lies within IIS. Check out the configuration(in IIS) for megabytes and compare it with mantis. Maybe you will find what is missing.

I can not help you more than that, my knowledge pertaining to IIS is pretty lame...

Cheers

Thanks for the comments and pointers however the configuration inside IIS is identical for both sites. The only thing I can see different is that inside the IIS console, Megabytes folder is not visible. In an explorer window it is.
However the Mantis one is visible in both.

Im banging my head against the wall a bit!

Andy

It's really easy to test whether this is a DNS or IIS issue. If the "domain" resolves to the same IP as the IP that works, then it is an IIS issue cause DNS is doing its work (even if all you're using is a hosts file to do your DNS resolution)

so go to the command prompt and ping your mantis and megabytes domains. Do they resolve? If so, do they resolve to the correct IP? If you say yes to these questions then you need to take your question to the IIS forum cause you have proof the DNS is working fine.

Try with "HostHeaderName" on your IIS, or port number.
Becouse you need to separate 2 web sites on same server, you doing this with IP adress, Host Name or Port number.
It is easy, if you need some help reply.

If you have second IP adress for ypur intersite, you will need to put in DNS, until then, this not DNS problem!!!