IIS & dots in directory names

[luzmedia]

I am running IIS5.0 under W2K on my local machine and have a remote website hosted on a W2K Advanced Server. My remote site is a 'reseller' site with multiple domains and so the directories for the domains have '.' in the name (e.g. mydomain.com). I am trying to mirror the remote site on my local machine, but if I change the names of the local directories so that they have a '.' in them, nothing works any more (Page Cannot Be Found). Everything works OK again if I simply rename the directories without the dots - but then they no longer mirror the remote site. The only difference is the '.' in the directory names. WHAT'S GOING ON?

[txbakers]

Hi and welcome to these forums.

On your local machine you will need to set up the DNS Domain Naming System to mirror the server your are hosting with. The dot in a URL tells the browser to look for domains.

On your local machine you will have directories that can mirror, but you'll need to set up a domain naming system.

[SprocketMan]

I just had this EXACT problem, and by uninstalling a utility called "URLscan" (a Microsoft patch for IIS 5.x) I was able to resolve directories with dots in them (like www.whatever.com/this.ext/something.html

Here's more info on URLscan. I'm going to try reinstalling it and playing with the settings for

I hope this helps!