I am a bit of a novice on web hosting - We have built a site in Flex that is delivered on a SaaS basis. We have put a dedicated system for a client on a URL of their choosing (purchased through Go-Daddy) and have put a simple forward with Masking on the site. This works fine but in the view source on the browser, it shows the IP address which is obviously a security issue. I have tried changing the IP in the DNS to the IP the site is located at on our server but as we use a sub-IP (i.e. 10.10.100.100:1000), it won't accept it.
Any ideas?
Looks like you want to install a reverse proxy. My understanding of your case is that there's a browser A using your clients site B which either pulls in resources or accesses in some other way from server C. Ypu want to hide all references to server C, so that it looks like B is stand-alone. configure your web server on B to act as a reverse proxy to C for a specific set of resources.
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I have recently installed PHP, MySQL Server, and Apache web server. I played around with some PHP scripts locally on the PC to insert some entries to MySQL Database.
Noob question so please be patient with me:
How do I get my web service out to the internet, by self hosting? Say I already have a domain for example mydomain.com How do I make it so that when someone not within my network can access mydomain.com/something and can send some data so my server gets it and do anything with that data?
Webhosting
You have to have some form of webhosting. You pay for hosting and you can upload your PHP files to their servers. They will usually also have database servers you can use.
Your domain name has to point to those servers via DNS so the internet can reach your application. I'd suggest you search the internet for popular hosts that provide the tools your need for this.
Self hosting
Another possibility is to open your network up to the world, but this is not recommended unless you have network administration experience due the security trouble that comes with it.
In short: forward a port through your router to the machine running your application. The website portforward.com has instructions on how to do this but keep in mind that misconfiguration could lead to vulnerabilities in your network.
In order to make you site public
1. you need host
2. you need domain
there are bunch of hosting sites you should get one first.
This link explains very well about self hosting
https://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/hostmyown.html
I've got multi tenancy set up on my Windows 7 machine using Orchard 7.1 and IIS 6.1 which I can access locally no problem.
They relevant sites are all added within the bindings of the applicationhost.config file, as well as the computers' host file and therefore show up as they should by accessing the url.
I have previously had a single tenant set up on my machine that meant I could access on my network, which was done by adding the site to IIS then binding to localhost/my ip address etc.
However the issue I am having is how to access these sites via a mobile device/another computer (on the same network) now that I have set it up for multiple tenants.
Any help appreciated
Liam
You'd need some sort of naming service inside your network, something like Bonjour.
Short of that, I guess you'd have to configure those other machines one by one so their hosts files point to the server.
One final possible possibility may be to simply use DNS. There is no reason why you couldn't use a domain that you control to map several names to local addresses such as that of your server.
our hosting account is set up with the domain www.nashman.ca, and our application is at www.nashman.ca/hub. We have another domain that forwards to www.nashman.ca/hub and that's hub.mhn.co. The problem i'm having with this is that the forwarded domain adds on the /hub whenever you navigate to another page from hub.mhn.co, so the domain shows as hub.mhn.co/hub/admin when you're in the admin area, for example. I need the domain to stay consistent, and never show that folder name, because its breaking some of the javascript I use. What is the best way to set this up?
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I've been doing some reading about URL Rewriting, and looking into it - my hosting provider supports the IIS7 URL Rewrite module. All the tutorials I've found so far detail how to set up rules using the IIS config tools, but I don't have access to them. Is there a way to do it by editing my web.config in my apps root directory? And will this solve my issue?
Is the default page for hub.mhn.co using a redirect to www.nashman.ca? If so, what is happening is that the forwarding software basically returns a new URI that the browser requests, and the new URI will replace the old one in the browser window and thus in all future requests. You're probably redirecting to ~/hub/ (the hub subdirectory of the site root) which will result in the browser requesting a new URI that keeps the domain name but tacks on the subdirectory.
If you have direct control over the DNS and your webservers, you can use the DNS configuration to direct a request for the hub.mhn.co domain directly to the /hub subdirectory of your webserver. That way, the browser never knows that hub.mhn.co is actually www.nashman.ca/hub/. You might have to direct to an alternate port on the webserver and map that port to the subdirectory, depending on your DNS software (IIRC, most can deal with ipaddress/subdir routes, but some can only handle routing to ipaddress:port).
If your IT department does not have direct control/ownership over your DNS routing, or your exact hosting environment, you are more or less at the mercy of your hosting provider. They may be able to set up their environment to do the same thing, or not; all you can do is ask.
EDIT: Basically you have two options left if you're hosting remotely and can't use their DNS to reroute silently.
First option: clone (copy all files from) the web layer of nashman.ca/hub as hub.mhn.co under a different root space in your hosting environment (try to keep any hooks to service-layer code over at nashman so you don't have to copy the whole vertical slice). If you must also keep the UI under the /hub/ subdirectory, you're repeating code, but you may be able to mitigate this with deploy scripts that will allow you to deploy one local copy of your codebase to various locations. This may also cost more as your hosting environment is now hosting two non-trivial sites.
Second option: host the site and/or resolve the calls on your own hardware. As long as you have a public, static IP address through your ISP, you can provide a DNS server that will be the "authoritative" server for nashman.ca and hub.mhn.co domains. Your ISP or a third party domain name registry can provide a "pass-down" route to get requests from the TLD servers down to you. Then, you can route requests to whatever IP address, port and/or subfolder you like; that can be a remote webhosting provider (as long as they don't mind JUST hosting your site) or your own webservers. This will require the hardware, and a static IP from your ISP. If you lose power to this server, your site will be unreachable until power's restored. If the IP address of your DNS server changes, your site will be unaccessible by DNS until the server that routes requests to you updates its routing table with the new IP (which can be up to 24 hours).
I want to create a blog for an e-commerce website, but due to data security reasons I don't want to host the blog on the same machine as the website is hosted on. Is there a way to
host it on a separate machine using the sub-domain of blog.domain.com but have it be accessible via the url www.domain.com/blog.
My reasoning is that the content will help with seo better if it uses the same domain.
I was thinking about using mod_rewrite but I'm not sure if it would allow page retrieval from a different website.
It is possible to use the Apache module mod_proxy to make the contents of a server appear to be hosted on another server, and therefore appear to be hosted under a different domain. You might like to take a read of this page which details the Apache configuration directives needed to get it up and running. If that doesn't offer enough options for setting it up how you want it, then you could investigate the "force proxy" option in mod_rewrite, which allows you to send certain rewritten requests through mod_proxy to do the proxying.
I have a Default Web Site and another web application (let's call it Application2) inside the Default Web Site in IIS7.
I have 2 registered domain names, let's say www.example.com and www.example.net.
I would like to configure things that when I open www.example.com I get Default Web Site, when I open www.example.net I get Default Web Site/Application2.
www.example.com -> Default Web Site
www.example.net -> Default Web Site/Application2
How can I do that?
First you need to decide if your going to use Name Based or IP Based hosting.
IP-Based uses unique ip's to determine which virtual host it will serve and Name Based will actually use the host header which is sent by your client browser.
So let's see two scenarios:
Scenario # 1 (ONE IP TO SHARE)
You have a server with only one IP, could be either private or public as long as the domains you are serving are properly configured in the dns serving you internally or your client externally (NAT).
I suggest that for the sake of this tutorial you stop the default website. Ok.
You will set up one site in II7 and name it accordingly. Go to the right hand side of the manager and look for "Bindings" under actions menu; making sure you have the new site selected on your left pane. Now under "Site Bindings" select the ip address you will be sharing between the sites (name based hosting). Under "Hostname" enter domain # 1 "www.example.com", hit ok.
Follow the same procedure above with the other domain or domains, making sure they have diferent hostnames and same ip's.
That's it. You will now be able to start those sites and run them at the same time.
The same principle above applies if your using the "Default Site". "Default Site" is just a name MS gave the default created one.
Scenario # 2 (MULTIPLE IP TO SHARE)
If you have either some private or public ip to spare, or at least until you do the exercise the only diference here is that sites you will set up and don't have to specify the "Hostname" per each site, as this is basically done in the DNS zones itself. The sites will respond for any request made to those ip's on port 80 regardless.
When will you need to use multiple Ip's to serve websites. Well it all depends.
Some reasons are: Network Isolation (Security), Applications which don't work well under name based hosting, SSL Certificates Bindings 443(PRE II7), and mostly complete control over site. There are of course more reasons, but I'll let others write a bit also.
Have fun.
Edit... upon further investigation I found that if you can set up multiple sites and run them simultaneously. Just need to stop and start the sites after setting the host values to get them to both run at the same time.
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The straight-forward way to do this would be to add another application by opening IIS and right-clicking Sites then select Add Web Site. In there you can specify the physical path of Application2 and also set the "host" to "www.example.net" which will filter all those requests to your second site. Any requests that don't match "www.example.net" will still go to the default web site.
That approach will work fine on Windows Server using IIS, but on Vista's IIS7 it won't work since you can only have one site running at a time. To start the second site, you'd first have to stop Default Web Site.