How to run multiple web sites

[glbaird]

Re: How to run multiple web sites

Gregg

problem is the app server can only run on 1 port so why not just use port443 or you need a second app server license

Greg

[DaveM]

Re: How to run multiple web sites

Greg,
I am using port 8080 on my computer,

In testing(locally) I have a lotrun and an alsie in c:\a5webroot

when I send 8080/alsie, it finds alsie and index.a5w
when I send 8080/lotrun, it finds lotrun and index.htm
They both run at the same time.

I still do not have my domain names transferred(guess thats slow). Will test from way outside when I get it set up.

My folder looks like this. I still do not know if it will work when published on the server. We will see.

[madtowng]

Re: How to run multiple web sites

Now you have me curious.
I have several folders in c:\a5webroot, with one of them actually using logins.

I never knew about using session variables until roughly the past 6 months.

I guess now is a good time to see whats going on in the sessions folder.

[DaveM]

Re: How to run multiple web sites

I did this wrong first and right(speculation at this point).

I first did all of it from one adb. I did not like what it did to the folder(just not looking right).

I sent one from the database from the adb for alsie and the other from the adb for lotrun.

it is important I think to do BOTH setups in the was for the names you are going to use.

clicking web or profiles at the top, you can add the name of the website and it also needs to be added again.

I still don't know if an adb can be accessed from these folders. I will refine and work on that later.

[DaveM]

Re: How to run multiple web sites

Gregg,

Look back a page or 2 and bea- eric gave a way to make that work. I have not tested that. Not smart enough yet. I saved it though.

Extend the Class of the session like:
- session.APPS.[__protected__]yourvar

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[glbaird]

Re: How to run multiple web sites

Dave

while you have not tested live yet you will find
domain names do not have a page attached to them

mydomain.com/index.htm or index.a5w

you will run into trouble as you always need an index page for the app server

I guess if you like index1.htm or index2.htm you can live with it
but what are you going to do when you need more than 1 logon page

the app server has no brain to sort out domain names you point
www.domain.com at the app server and it will use any page in the default pages list it CANNOT think index.htm belongs to domain.com it only knows the folder has a index.htm in it

If domain.com does not have a default start page in it you will get a page not found error 404 Any of your links will have to be complete ------- http://www.domain.com/index.htm

try this link
http://www.eelriver.com/dave.htm Works pretty nice huh

I don't want to shoot down your hopes of making this work but I think I have a bit more experience in network setup

Greg

[DaveM]

Re: How to run multiple web sites

Yes you do have more experience. No doubt and I read what you write carefully.

I think our server(WAS) is better than I thought it was a few days ago.

I DO wish it had name recognition built in and an email server. I do not mean and email like we have now, I mean a real server.

I found alpha gives a list of names to default to that you can modify. alsiesings.com is actually translated by namecheap to http://173.169.192.3:8080/index.a5w. I did test this with 2 folders in a5webroot and it still found it. I manually added index.html (http://173.169.192.3:8080/index.htm. ) instead and it found the file.

I will have 2 seperate sites

c:\a5webroot\lotrun = http://173.169.192.3:8080/index.htm
c:\a5webroot\alsie = http://173.169.192.3:8080/index.a5w

This seems to work from the web. I just have to make sure I train namecheap to use this right.

I can also use http://173.169.192.3:8080/alsie and it finds index.aw5 or http://173.169.192.3:8080/lotrun finds index.htm

I am inexperienced enough at this that I will try anything to get what I need to work. I am not sure why I would want 2 start files in one site. I do have a seperate page where I can see who visited and it has it's own name so I can simply go straight there?

Remember, these particular sites are for my own use. They are nothing fancy or heavy database use. If I were designing for a client, there would only be one site in the server.

Thanks for all help from everybody. I had to start somewhere.





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[DaveM]

Re: How to run multiple web sites

Ok
Tested as above and all is working as planned

www.alsiesings.com goes to alsie folder and db for guest works
www.lotrun.com goes to lotrun folder and guest page not setup yet.

[peteconway]

Re: How to run multiple web sites

Looks like you have done some real good work here - what about security - have you tested that? - Even if you haven't it's a good get! - well done.

[DaveM]

Re: How to run multiple web sites

Pete,

I have very little need for security with these. I see no reason it would not work though.

In the early days of v5, I wrote my own security(with some board help) and liked it better than what alpha had. I can get ssl if needed and believe that to be enough for what I will ever do for myself.

I made one error in the lotrun part and just repaired it. The tables were lost LOL.

Alpha did good, but it was harder because the steps were not findable in any help I located.

There are 2 web pages completely seperated that run fine in every respect on an XP Pro machine with no IIs or Apache. I do not know if session variables are islated or not.

Now on to serving up some emails.

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[sdsspitzer]

Re: How to run multiple web sites

Dave,

Could you give an update on how things have worked out so far with this, any glitches?

[mixter]

IIS7 - Application Request Routing (ARR) / Apache mod_proxy (reverse proxy)

Hi,

I have a bit of understanding of this. Have not tested anything yet, but doing my research now



If you are running Apache,
look into mod_proxy and/or mod_rewrite

Post #60 above in this thread looks pretty good.

Also see the last diagram on this page to visualise what's happening with the reverse proxy

http://www.akadia.com/services/apache_redirect.html



If you are running IIS,

(a) For a very simple reverse proxy, all you have to do is:
1. Select the server node on inetmgr.
2. Double click on Application Request Routing icon.
3. Select/check "Enable proxy".
4. Select/check "Use URL Rewrite to inspect incoming requests.
5. Enter the server of where you want to route the request to in "Reverse proxy" - ie. (myserver.contoso.com)

(from http://forums.iis.net/t/1156458.aspx )


(b) Here is another option
http://urlrewriter.codeplex.com/


(c) take a look at ARR (Application Request Routing)
which is what I am looking into now, as ARR does a lot more than just reverse proxy

here are some useful links

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/carlosag/arc...e-and-arr.aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...t-to-different

http://blogs.iis.net/wonyoo/archive/...rse-proxy.aspx

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/659/r...quest-routing/


http://www.iisadmin.co.uk/?p=326&page=1
http://www.iisadmin.co.uk/?p=326&page=2
http://www.iisadmin.co.uk/?p=326&page=3
(see image at top of page 3 (last link) to see the important rewrite setting)


Download ARR here.
http://www.iis.net/download/ApplicationRequestRouting
(Don't watch the video on that page... it's not about what we want to use ARR for!)

Detailed documentation for ARR
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/465/u...ion-reference/

ARR help forum here
http://forums.iis.net/1154.aspx

Some potentially good threads
http://forums.iis.net/t/1179785.aspx
http://forums.iis.net/t/1178212.aspx
http://forums.iis.net/t/1177759.aspx
http://forums.iis.net/t/1176755.aspx

Bonus security trick, restrict by IP address/range
http://forums.iis.net/t/1172687.aspx