Multiple websites, but not directories

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  Hi All!
  
  So far, so good. Really loving my WHS on it's third day in my life!
  
  Now, I'm setting up everything I bought the machine for; this is to host my webapplications!
  
  I installed the applications succesfully (will write about it, on my own website ome-b.nl and will post it on the wiki on here 'couse it's brillant, a full functioning Oracle Database on WHS!) and now want to connect to the applications over the web (obviously).
  
  The problem is, I know nothing at all about WHS and IIS, so I will need you guys to pich in a bit...
  
  This is the thing:
  
  Let's say, I got three webapplications, running inside the Oracle database (the wonder called Oracle Application Express, short APEX) on the following URL's:
  
  http://111.111.1.1:9090/apex/f?p=100 and
  http://111.111.1.1:9090/apex/f?p=200 and
  http://111.111.1.1:9090/apex/f?p=300
  
  I want them to be accessed over three completely different domain names, lets call them:
  
  apex1.com
  apex2.com and
  apex3.com.
  
  I got all the domains registered and on a serviced DNS hoster that makes it possible for me to have complete control over the DNS settings / records. (types A, CNAME, MX, PTR and TXT). Here, I probably need to point all the URL's to the same IP (My own WAN IP address). The quastion remains:
  
  "How do I get the WHS and / or the DNS server to understand which URL to point to what URL inside the WHS machine?"
  
  I want the following (I know I really keep repeating myself, but better to be clear right ):
  
  apex1.com: when accessed go to the application with inside URL: http://111.111.1.1:9090/apex/f?p=100
  apex2.com: when accessed go to the application with inside URL: http://111.111.1.1:9090/apex/f?p=200
  apex3.com: when accessed go to the application with inside URL: http://111.111.1.1:9090/apex/f?p=300
  
  how do I set this in the WHS, IIS and / or the DNS server?
  
  
  I already came a bit further with this, noticed (by searching the web a lot) that I needed the default website only to listen to requests from myserver.homeserver.com and nothing else, and I set up a new website in IIS.
  
  Because the APEX applications are running in an Oracle Database we don't have any directories for us to select in the Home Directory section. Is it possible to send it to a URL? Proxy?
  
  eg: I want the user to have a URL to look like this: apex1.com/apex/f?p=100:1 or something like that...
  
  Is it possible?
  
  Thanks for all your cool answers!
  
  Douwe Pieter

  • Moved by Ken WarrenModerator Monday, April 27, 2009 10:44 PM WHS dev question (From:Windows Home Server Software)

  Monday, April 27, 2009 9:41 PM