How to use different sites in IIS on WinXP Pro

[Astra]

Hi All

Probably way off the mark here, but I have IIS running on my WinXP machine
and I thought I could host multiple domains over the old Win98 method where
I could only have the one?

All I can see at the moment is that I have a Default Web Site, which is
associated to MyPC, and all I can create is virtual directories/folders
within this default location. This means that instead of me being able to
create the desired effect of:

http://mydomain1.com
http://mydomain2.com
etc

All I can create is:

http://myPC/mydomain1
http://myPC/mydomain2
etc

The reason why I want the former is that I'm developing a site where the
http and https bits are on completely different servers, so for my local dev
I want the 2 parts of my site to be on separate local domains.

At the moment, I'm having to use 2 WinXP machines running IIS so that I can
put the http stuff on http://MyPC1 and the https on http://MyPC2 .

I'm sure I can use multiple domains on the same IIS machine, as how do all
these ISPs do it?!?!?!?

Any pointers you can give me would be very much appreciated.

Rgds

Robbie

[Aaron [SQL Server MVP]]

> Probably way off the mark here, but I have IIS running on my WinXP machine

and I thought I could host multiple domains over the old Win98 method where
I could only have the one?
No, XP has the same limitations. It's still a desktop operating system, not
a server. You might be able to try the workaround mentioned here:
http://www.aspfaq.com/2056
I'm sure I can use multiple domains on the same IIS machine, as how do all
these ISPs do it?!?!?!?

They use Windows Server, not a desktop operating system.

A

[Astra]

Thanks for the info.

Rgds Robbie

"Aaron [SQL Server MVP]" <te*****@dnartreb.noraa> wrote in message
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Probably way off the mark here, but I have IIS running on my WinXP machine
and I thought I could host multiple domains over the old Win98 method
where
I could only have the one?
No, XP has the same limitations. It's still a desktop operating system, not
a server. You might be able to try the workaround mentioned here:
http://www.aspfaq.com/2056
I'm sure I can use multiple domains on the same IIS machine, as how do all
these ISPs do it?!?!?!?

They use Windows Server, not a desktop operating system.

A