I have a small local domain which consists of two servers. #1 is
SBS2003, #2 is 2003 standard edition. My domain lives behind a Sonic
Wall firewall device and is connected to the internet via a typical
cable modem. We are using a 3rd party dynamic DNS service to deal with
the ISP?s dynamic IP addressing. This service allows me to add
resource records and targets at will.

Server 1 is hosting Outlook email and Outlook web access. Server 2
hosts another web site which I would like to make available to the
WWW. I would like to utilize Host Header Values (or similar) (see
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/server/iis/htm/core/iinmres.htm)
to provide access much like OWA: https://publicIP/exchange  and
https://publicIP/MyNewSite.

I have made several attempts to accomplish this to no avail. I have
created a duplicate web site on server 1 on port 80 which redirects to
port 8080 of server2 and can be browsed from iis. I still cannot
succeed at using the host header names.

Please provide information that will remedy the host header problem
and the WWW access issue.

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Request for Question Clarification by keystroke-ga on 03 Oct 2006 12:00 PDT

Hello rasp67,

Would using a port forwarding system on your front end router be
sufficient? You could have your OWA users using
http://yourip:1234/exchange and get your external router/firewall to
perform port forwarding to your internal exchange server on port 443.
That is the configuration my friend has set up at his office and it
works fine.

--keystroke-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by keystroke-ga on 03 Oct 2006 12:44 PDT

Hello rasp67,

That url should have read as:
https://yourip:1234/exchange

--keystroke-ga

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Clarification of Question by rasp67-ga on 04 Oct 2006 05:46 PDT

Actually, I have done the port translation with my firewall. The
results are as follows:
When I address my browser http://publicIP/ I get hit my website
without any additional address information (weird).

Exchange does work as https://publicIP/exchange. I want to follow the
conventions shown in the Microsoft document linked in the above
description. That is the one using ?Host Header Names?.

Thanks for the reply!