How to setup domain name for my intranet demo website

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I am having many Demo Applications on my IIS Server. I am accessing the websites using localips:portnumber. This uproach of managing my applications is poor as I may forget my port while I am at client side. Can you please help me on how I can manage an intranet domain handler to route my websites internally.

What I have tried:

I can't give live ip and domain name because I want security.

Posted 2-Sep-21 20:52pm

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Updated 3-Sep-21 3:31am

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2021-09-02T22:58:00

Assuming you're accessing the demos on the local PC, you can use the HOSTS file to map dummy domain names to the loopback address.

Run notepad as administrator, and open C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts - the file has no extension, so you'll need to select "all files" in the file-type dropdown.

Go to the end of the file, and enter a mapping followed by a blank line. For example:

127.0.0.1 demo1.local

This will map the name demo1.local to your computer, but only when accessed from your computer.

Then, in IIS Manager, edit the binding for your site, leave the default port, and set the "Host name" to demo1.local.

You will then be able to access that site using http://demo1.local - but only on your local PC.