This is an obvious requirement from any client when it comes to hosting for http. if you want to host multiple site collections on same 80 port , it can be achieved through following steps.
- Create a web application on 80 port and provide the host header as the alternate access mapping url content without http://. i.e suppose the alternate access mapping url is http://indiansharepoint.com then you have consider the host header as indiansharepoint.com . Look at the below attached snapshot.
2.Create another web application on 80 port itself and provide the host header as the alternate access mapping url content without http://. i.e suppose the alternate access mapping url is http://IndianGeek.com then you have consider the host header as IndianGeek.com . Look at the below attached snapshot.
3.Now Create site collections for both the web applications as usual. I am not going to give explanation about it here.
4. Now open the file hosts present in the location C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ . Now open the hosts file in notepad.
There you can find the dns record. Now you have to add records in the following format. Since we have created 2 sites as of now with hosts headers , you need to enter the host headers in front of each host header so that you can be able to access both sites without any conflict
in the above snapshot, there have given description after # symbol. while entering the record for our sites , we should not use # before the record entry. each entry should be added one below the other.After each entry , press ENTER key .The format would be
127.0.0.1 <SPACE> Host Header Name
ie.
127.0.0.1 indiangeek.com <Press enter Key>
127.0.0.1 indiansharepoint.com
Note:127.0.0.1 may vary. I am not sure. But in the hosts file itself you will get information about this. So no worries :)
save the hosts file . Now you can access the site easily which are hosted on same port. You don't need to mention the port number either it is 80 or some other port.
Thanks
Pradeepa
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