Easy Question

[blankmonkey]

I run into this often, more now that I am taking on a giant ball of string from an old employee.

In IIS6 (or 5 even) how can you find the active website addresses?

I use the IIS management tool, and rt click on the website, but for the life of me I can't find a "this web site uses #*$!X web address.

Please help :(

[mattcg]

Properties > Website > Advanced...

[visualwin.com...]

[blankmonkey]

Thank you, I did not know about this. BUT when i look at this, the field is empty. Is there another way?

[mattcg]

Ok, let's say the IP address of your IIS web server is 10.0.0.1 and you own three domain names, one.com, two.com, and three.com. The DNS A record for each domain is set to the IP address of your web server, 10.0.0.1.

If you only have one web site set up in IIS, with only the wildcard (blank) host header defined, IIS will serve up the same web page regardless of whether you try to load one.com, two.com or three.com in your browser. If you remove the blank header and add only 'three.com' as a header, IIS will only serve up a web page if try and load three.com in your browser.

[blankmonkey]

I understand, but how does this change if;
I have one server with 3 ip's.
and I have 3 websites on the server.
BUT,
Default web has no IP assigned
wWb 2 has an IP, but no DNS A record.
Web 3 has IP assigned, and DNS.

Web 2 is the problem child, in the tree it is named "This Website" (not exactly of coarse, but the "space" is there) So i am not sure what fqdn it is supposed to be.

I can exaggerate this issue also. under default web, the old admin has a large number of hidden websites, like
www.site.com/help
www.site.com/help/it
www.site.com/hr/forms
the list goes on and on. the point is i need to track down these websites, and kill them if they are not being used, and document them if they are.

[mattcg]

Ok, I understand your confusion. Does Web 2 aka "This website" have any host header assigned? And by any I mean even a wildcard value. Check this under 'Multiple identities for this website'. If the TCP port is set to 80 and the host header value is blank, then you have a wildcard value.

If there are no indentities whatsoever for the website, not even a wildcard value, then you can probably delete as it will never be served in any case.