IIS5 & multiple websites

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Hi,

if there are any IIS gurus in da house:

 

I am using Windows XP Pro, and am trying to run multiple websites.

 

ie. let's say I have a main site, http://blahblah.com

 

now, if I created a totally irrelevant site and wanted to run it of

http://blahblah.com:81

 

But I want the :81 site to have a different root directory and the original site. Is it possible to do this with XP Pro? Or do I need NT/2000 Server? Thanks in advance,

 

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Mike.

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IIS (Personal Web Server) in any workstation will only host one WWW and one FTP site at a time. What you are talking about though is perfectly capable in Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 server. I regularly host at least 4 and sometimes 8 WWW sites on a server with some of them even overlapping directories. They can each be setup with at least one of the following being different:

 

1. Hosted IP address

2. Port Number

3. Host Header Name

 

Host headers work great and allow the same IP and port to host many sites at once, even if they are on different directories on the server and can comprise of virtual directories from many other servers. I have used all 3, and they all work fine.