Lately I’ve been have some trouble on my home-grown SharePoint 2013 system. (Not a network guy)
I tried creating another Web Application also using Port 80. After I get the App created and build a site collection on it, I am able to access it.
My main iternet site is http://internet.contoso.com.
The new web application is http://stephanstest
The host A Record under contoso.com:
stephanstest
stephanstest.contoso.com
192.168.1.3
(Same IP as http://internet.contoso.com)
Problem is that Visual Studio 2012 would allow me to input “http://stephanstest” because it thinks its remote.
Even tried configuring an alternate url for http://stephanstest for internal as htttp://stephanstest.contoso.com
Where have I missed the IP boat?
I’ve gone under the main
So If you create the site as
http://[Servername]:[random port #]
and then extend to your stephanstest.contoso.com (port 80)
Visual studio should let you connect to the http://[Servername]:[random port number] if not, you can use http://localhost:[random port #] and hopefully trick it into working.
I always do it this way because we use a hardware load balancer, and in the event that the loadbalancer doesn’t pickup any of the front-end servers, I can hit the servername:port and it’ll recognize that the server is up and bring that link up in the load balancer.
I’m not saying it’s a best practice, but would be curious if that solves the issue you’re seeing with VS. It also lets you have another way to get to the site. Be sure to set you alternate access mappings to include all addresses you can access the site on.
Mathew,
I guess I’m not sure why I would create with Web Applications with ports other than 80. I know if I create something for admin or SSL 443.
Would people be able to access it without putting the port number on it . I actually able to access it fine but Visual Studio thinks it’s remote.
Also I can access it as http://stephanstest.contoso.com –even though I have a DNS Host Record configured like that under contoso.com
thanks for your help. I know a little but not all the pieces.
Stephan
I usually create with a port other than 80, and then extend with a host header (A record) to port 80 in a different zone. Have you tried that?
