Problems with IIS and MSPress

Hey guys need some help. I am doing the lab in the MSPress book "Administering IIS" I have completed the lab as described. The only difference is the server name, I used VM-SRVR1.

I installed IIS, Prepared simulated web content, and created a web site exactly like the book said, except for the server name being different.

The book says open IE and type "http://VM-SRVR1.contoso.com" and the welcome page should appear. It does not I get a Page cannot display the web page.

If I type in "http://VM-SRVR1" The page displays like it is suppose to. I have checked and recheck everything is correct. Any ideas what I am doing wrong or overlooking.Thanks

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dynamik

Looks like a dns problem. How do you have dns configured?

Orion1377

That's what I was afraid of. I've got IIS installed on the Domain Controller with DNS and DHCP on the same server.

I am not getting any errors in the DNS event viewer, I let DNS configure itself when I ran dcpromo. I don't know much about DNS yet. But all my clients were able to join my domain without a problem.

dynamik

Are you testing it from that server?

Whether you are or not, is the primary dns server of the computer you're on pointing to your dns server?

It's probably something simple if your clients have been able to join the domain. It would be impossible for them to do so if it was configured incorrectly.

Orion1377

I have tested it from the server hosting IIS and from a client machine. Both have the exact same results.

dynamik

If you go to administrative tools > dns. Is there an A record for the server there?

If not, try doing start > run > cmd and type ipconfig /registerdns and then try to access it again. Be sure to run ipconfig /flushdns to clear the local dns cache on whichever machine before you try it again though. You can also choose to register that connection in dns in the nic's properties.

Orion1377

My Bad, I figured it out. I forgot to tell you that my domain was named vmtest.net, not contoso.com.

So when I type in "http://vm-srvr1.vmtest.net" everything works like it should.

Thanks for you help Dynamik

dynamik

Yea, that's kind of important

No problem. Glad you got it going.

Orion1377

That's exactly where I was looking when I saw the Name Server(NS) record. Then it clicked. Thanks again