How to configure DNS Server for domain name as well as subdomain name

farooqkhan · Post by **farooqkhan** » Fri May 02, 2008 9:48 pm

Hi Guys,

My company designed a web portal where people will come and design their web sites.

REQUIREMENT:
Suppose my website is = http://www.mysite.com
If user1 come and design his web site so his temporary address should be http://www.user1.mysite.com.

CONCLUSION:
I mean in all cases= [url]http://www.*.mysite.com[/url] request should come to my IP. So our developers will mange accordingly

If later on user1 wants his own web address then http://www.user1.com should also be map to my (single) IP address, which Im already using for http://www.mysite.com.

I do not have much idea about DNS Server.

I am using window 2000 advance server without Active Directory.
Network Identification
Full Computer Name= ComputerName.MySite.com
Primary DNS Suffix= mysite.com
Member of = WorkGroup (No Domain)

Guys Can you explain me which steps in need to take.
Do I need to configure Active Directory before installing DNS Server?
How can I configure DNS which fulfill my requirement?

thanks
Farooq

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Mon May 05, 2008 10:05 am

I belive you have to install AD I could be wrong here is a good guide on what you are looking for http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... 42582.aspx

axemagic · Post by **axemagic** » Thu May 08, 2008 12:59 pm

Well, one thing is to make sure web services is intalled (IIS), and you'll probably need to do some port forwarding as well. If everyone's sharing your primary IP, you'll need to separate on which port each site directs to.

ErikD · Post by **ErikD** » Sat May 10, 2008 12:32 pm

axemagic wrote:Well, one thing is to make sure web services is intalled (IIS), and you'll probably need to do some port forwarding as well. If everyone's sharing your primary IP, you'll need to separate on which port each site directs to.

IIS and DNS have nothing to do with each other, and I would guess that if this is a webserver already hosting one site at the root domain it will already have IIS installed anyway.

Now is this for a public server that should be accessible over the internet, or internal only? If public you will need to make the DNS changes with the registrar, not internal DNS.