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  • 04-05-2003 12:07am
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    TomTom
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 3,290 ✭✭✭


    on my PC the local web address is http://TomTom
    I was testing a site I had created and put it here to test it out. When i clicked on publich in browser on frontpage some website called commonname.com comes up. So i opened a seperate explorer and typed in http://tomtom and the same address came up.
    Also advice on setting up IIS correctly would be appricated.
    I thought this would be more suted here rather than os


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,950 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    with IIS you need to type http://127.0.0.1/whatever or http://www.localhost/whatever.
    Set up your site in IIS by going to the (assuming Win 2K here) administrative tools of the control panel. Then go to the Internet Services Manager and you will see the name of your pc there (mine says * Killians) open the '+' beside it and select default web site.
    Right click on default web site and select new virtual directory. The wizard now opens.
    Type in the alias for that site (TomTom?) and click next.
    Type in the address for the folder which will contain the files for the tomtom website. Next.
    I assume you are running ASP or something so you will possibly want to read and write scripts, etc. (tick everything if you wish[doesn't really matter ]). Done
    Type in http://127.0.0.1/tomtom in the browser and you are done.


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,950 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    a more valuable piece of advice would have been to uninstall Frontpage from your pc.


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    TomTom
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 3,290 ✭✭✭TomTom


    It's ok I only use it for spell checking.


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,950 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    I wouldn't trrust a MS product to do a spell check :p
    did the iis instructions work?


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    McGintyMcGoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 333 ✭✭McGintyMcGoo


    The real beauty of FrontPage is that if you decide to use it to open up a page that you handcoded yourself, Frontpage will go and make changes to the code and resave it without asking you. More often than not, your code will stop working because Frontpage thinks that you should have written the code it's own way! Great fun altogether!!! :ninja:


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