I have defined an asp.net mvc app on server x. I added the sitename in the hostfile:
127.0.0.1 weeral.com
Also in IIS 7 i have added this as a sitebinding hostname weeral.com
When I hit http://weeral.com it responds find on the server.
However when I ping weeral.com from a different machine in the network it goes:
Ping request could not find host weeral.com. Please check the name...
what am i doing wrong?
The different machine doesn't have the same host file.
You need to map 127.0.0.1 to weeral.com on every one of the machines you use. If you used Dropbox (or something similar) you could symbolically link the machine's host file to the one in your Dropbox. I've done this for other config files, so I would think it would work for the host file.
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Preface: I'm new to the whole web hosting thing, so I apologize if any information I give doesn't make sense or is inaccurate. I will do my best to explain things.
I currently have a self-hosted server running Windows Server 2019 that is hosting two sites via IIS. I recently have created an application that runs on a Docker container instance that hosts a website on port 40444. I would like to access this site via a specific subdirectory on my website instead of the port (www.mywebsite.com/website3 instead of www.mywebsite.com:40444). For clarification, here is an example of what I'm looking to do:
www.mywebsite.com/website1 (hosted on IIS)
www.mywebsite.com/website2 (hosted on IIS)
www.mywebsite.com/website3 (hosted on docker via port 40444)
I was able to get a basic reverse proxy set up and successfully got the docker application to show on localhost/, but I would prefer using a subdirectory if possible.(image below).
I attempted to change (.*) to (.*)website3$ and it did what I wanted, but the website cannot load any files (i.e css, js, etc.) and gives me the following error
https://www.mywebsite.com/css/style.css net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)
If IIS isn't the best option to accomplish what I need I am more than happy to use a different solution. As I mentioned before, I'm new to web hosting and it was just the simplest to set up.
I have a container called web, it contains my application and apache webserver. When I put to browser address 0.0.0.0:8090 i get my working application. But i need to change this address to mastery.local. How do I do that without using /etc/hosts file.
This can only be achieved via DNS resolution.
The simplest way would be to add this entry to the /etc/hosts.
As an alternative you could setup an dedicated DNS server on your machine which resolves this address to 0.0.0.0 and then configure your machine to use this DNS server.
I'm trying to debug my application but any URLs which contain localhost (I've tried IIS Express, Local IIS, a simple Node server, and a Python development server) are redirected to the IIS welcome screen.
Examples:
localhost:xxxx/MyController
localhost:xxxx/SomeFolder/SomeFile.html
localhost/MyApp/MyController
localhost/MyApp/SomeFolder/SomeFile.html
The URL changes from the full url to my external IP address (i.e., URL changes from localhost:xxxx/MyController to simply XX.XX.XX.XX)
I just tried launching with a brand new ASP.NET "Empty Web Site," just loading the index.html file, and same situation.
There are no entries in my hosts file and it appears that this is only happening in Chrome. Any ideas?
This works in php, so it may help you with ASP:
Run Notepad as administrator
Open C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file
add the following line to hosts file
127.0.0.1:123 yourserver.com
Save
Run command prompt using CMD in run or type it in start menu
Type this command and hit enter
ipconfig /flushdns
Close
go to yourserver.com
I hope this help you. Again, this works fine with PHP.
It sounds like your DNS is resolving the localhost hostname. If you're using your ISP's DNS, this may happen. You could change the DNS to Google's Public DNS. By pointing the DNS server to IP's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. See the link for details on how to configure your computer.
I am not sure what to look for with the current problem and I appreciate your suggestions.
Basically, all I want to do is locally host a web application on IIS and access it from my mobile browser.
My web application is hosted on the local IIS and works fine on the main machine. I can use my computer name, internal ip or external ip instead of localhost to connect to the app from the main computer. But when I go to another computer (which I can see and exchange files with) connected to the same network I cannot access the web application on the main machine. I tried ip and machine name.
At work, we are connected to a Domain and I tried the same thing with the work computer. When I write my computer name or it's ip, I can access hosted app from another computer.
So the question is, do I have to have a domain for this capability and if so, Is it possible to create a local domain at a home network? What do I need to search for to get this working? Is WAMP a must?
Apparently opening the outbound/inbound port 80 from windows firewall is enough
Using WEBrick you could navigate to an app you were serving from another device/virtual machine by navigating to your.ip.address.here:port
Is it possible to do something similar with pow.cx?
The latest version of Pow (0.4.0) now includes xip.io support. You can read about the release here.
Here's a quick explanation of how this helps Pow serve your Rails apps across your entire local network, from their post:
Say your development computer’s LAN IP address is 10.0.0.1. With the
new version of Pow, you can now access your app at
http://myapp.10.0.0.1.xip.io/. And xip.io supports wildcard DNS, so
any and all subdomains of 10.0.0.1.xip.io resolve too.
Here's a description of xip.io, from their site:
xip.io runs a custom DNS server on the public Internet. When your
computer looks up a xip.io domain, the xip.io DNS server extracts the
IP address from the domain and sends it back in the response.
There are basically two options:
Don't use pow: run your applications on localhost as usual and access them as usual
Edit the hosts file (or local DNS) to point your server machine ip
Example accessing from a virtual windows machine:
Suppose you are running two rails applications in pow: store.dev and auth.dev, and you want to access them from a windows xp virtual machine to test them with IE, you only need to edit your hosts file to add the lines:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
# Allow to access applications in pow.
# The ip address points to the host machine localhost, that usually is the default gateway
10.0.2.2 store.dev
10.0.2.2 auth.dev
And then open the IE browser to access your applications in http://store.dev and http://auth.dev respectivelly.
Specifically, no, because Pow uses the Host header of the request to determine which app you need to access. To get that working remotely, you would have to have the remote machine map the required domain name to your IP address - either with a local DNS server or by editing the HOSTS file. Both of which are possible but annoying.
The simplest thing to do in that case is to start up a standalone Rails server as you mentioned (using ./script/server or rails s depending on the version), and then you can address http://[ip address]:3000 as before.
In other words, Pow works because it intercepts your local domain resolution, something that isn't affected by (or available to) remote machines.