Can i have two or more different web sites with different domains using the same IP in Windows server 2008?

Question

Can i have two or more different web sites with different domains using the same IP in Windows server 2008?

Answer 1

Yes it's possible.

To use one IP-Address with more than one website, IIS has a feature called Host Headers. For each website that you host, you have to specifiy the HTTP 1.1 Hostheader.

Create two new websites using the Internet Service Manager.

Add www.domain01.com as hostheader to the first new created website and www.domain02.com to the second. Both websites should use the same IP-Address (127.0.0.1).

Now you have created two websites running on the same IP-Address. You can now start your browser to view the www.domain01.com and www.domain02.com.

Note: You may need to specify the HOST entries if you are not running DNS. If you are running DNS, then make sure the zones for both the sites are created with appropriate records.