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by eminent87

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Hi,

I have a dsl connection with one static ip. I also linksys dsl router on my 2000 network. Currently, I have successfully set up Active Directory and Exchange 2000 sever and everything works fine. My question is, can I setup a webserver and a ftp server on the same server as the exchange server with one ip. I was unsure because the exchange sever uses the default web for outlook web clients and since the router forwards all http requests to the one server i wasn't sure if it's even possible. If not what can I do in my situation to add a webserver and a ftp server to my network?

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by aaron_wurthmann

Exchange 2000 server should run by default in a virtual directory. http://yourmachine.ext/exchange right? So that being said whatever you put at the root of the web server http://yourmachine.ext is fine. If you wanted to have http://yourmachine1.extand http://yourmachine2.ext/ then you would need two ip addresses for that or some fancy scripting that says... "oh you are looking for yourmachine1.ext, then go to this virtual directory". You know like how the big virtual web hosters do it. I don't know how they do that.

I guess the easiest thing to do would be just to put your data at the root of http:\\yourmachine.ext where ever that is on your system, see IIS manager default Site, and access Exchange from http:\\yourmachine.ext\Exchange.

by shmaltz

You can create a new web site and give it a different host name. In IIS when you create the web site click advanced and give it a different host name. For example you can set up Exchange OWA to respond to requests that have a host header of mail.yourdomain.com and your www server to www.yourdomain.com. You can also setup an ftp server and either use mail.yourdomain.com or www.yourdomain.com or ftp.yourdomain.com. As long as those names point to the same IP address everything should work fine.

by cg it

Yes you can and as answer # 2 pointed out, you do so via host header names and pointers.

by avswamy

create a seperate name for http access in exchanges server for example webmail in exchange and create a pointer to direct ur dns server to this eg:webmail.urdomain.com, so the exchange http access is directed to this name. By this ur problem for http default access for exchange is solved. In addition to this for ftp also u do same this in dns, create both these things for same ip address only(check that while creating), but this type of creating all the things on one server will reduce the server performance, before doing any thing you should be aware of those things.

i hope this will solve your problem.

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