IIS and a domain name

[marcomarco]

I real novice question here! i have never used IIS before, and actually never hosted a website before, as you will now find out.

just, where do you put your domain name?

I have a site built, a domain name and a personal server, now i have to make it available on the internet.

I'm running IIS 6 on Windows Server 2003.

Help would really be appreciated here!

[richlowe]

Two places. In the host header field the domain name must match the DNS domain name. If you want two domain names (commonly the www and the non-www version) just add two DNS entries (A records) and two host headers in IIS.

[ogletree]

If you only have 1 web site you don't need to put it in the host header. Just go to the default website and have it point to the directory of your new content and it will come up by IP. All you have to do then is set up the website in your DNS. I would reccomend a firewall that only allows ports that are needed or people can type in your web site into MS Terminal Server Client and start guessing your password until they get it. Also rename your administrator to something else.

You can not use that machine as your DNS server unless you register it as a host server.