how to setup a subdomain in IIS7

Question

I have my actual site running on one physical server using IIS7 and ASP.NET. I want to add the images.mysite.com sub domain on that same server pointing to C:\MyImages folder where all my product images are.

Using IIS Management Studio I right clicked the site node, then clicked add website. entered ImageServer as my site name, set C:\MyImages as my physical path, and set image.mysite.com as my host name.

However, when I type images.mysite.com/myfirstimage.jpg in a browser I get Firefox can't find the server at images.mysite.com.

What am I missing? What else needs to be done? I called my DNS registrar and they said I do not need to register subdomains with them.

Many thanks!

Have you add a A record in your DNS server? Try ping images.mysite.com and see if that's the IP you are expecting. — ysrb
– ysrb, Commented Dec 14, 2011 at 1:08
Thanks! With my domain registrar or do i need to add dns server to my windows server that is going to be holding my images? — Barka
– Barka, Commented Dec 14, 2011 at 2:18
No, seems that you already have dns server. www.mysite.com works right? So just go to registrar and update the dns record. — ysrb
– ysrb, Commented Dec 14, 2011 at 2:57
Thanks ysrb. I did as you said and it works like a charm :) If you copy and paste your comment into an answer then I will mark it as the accepted answer. — Barka
– Barka, Commented Dec 14, 2011 at 18:00

ysrb · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-14 22:42:34Z

3

Make sure you add a A record in your DNS server. Try ping images.mysite.com and see if that's the IP you are expecting.

answered Dec 14, 2011 at 22:42

ysrb

6,7202 gold badges32 silver badges30 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

how to setup a subdomain in IIS7

1 Answer 1

Comments

Your Answer

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

1 Answer 1

Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Related