Specifying the Domain Name

You must change the non-secured (or secured) host name of your application to the domain name set up on the Domain Name System (DNS) server, for example, www.microsoft.com. Commerce Server does not automatically read the domain name from DNS; instead, Commerce Server uses the computer name as the default domain name. You must provide the domain name to Commerce Server using the following procedure.

When you first unpack a site, your applications are named with the computer name (for example, Server1) and the Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 application paths that you specified during the unpacking process (for example, /msn). For example, the application name might be Server1/msn.

For each application in your site, you must rename the application with your domain name. For the application www.microsoft.com/msn, the domain name is www.microsoft.com and the IIS application path is /msn.

To specify the domain name

1. Expand Commerce Server Manager, expand Commerce Sites, and then click the site you want to administer.
2. Expand Applications, right-click the application you want to rename, and then click Properties.
3. In the <site> Properties dialog box, on the General tab, do the following:

   Use this	To do this
   Nonsecure host name	Type the domain name, the same way it appears in your DNS server (for example, you might change it to www.microsoft.com). Caution If you are using a port number other than 80, you must append that number to the end of the nonsecure host name (for example, www.microsoft.com:81). To view or edit the port number, see the TCP Port box on the Identities tab in the Web Server Properties dialog box. For more information, see Configuring a Web Server.
   IIS application path	Type the path to the IIS application. For example, for the application www.microsoft.com/msn, the path would be /msn. Caution If you change this property, you must change the location of the files on the Web server(s) to correspond to it. You must also configure IIS with the new application.

4. Click OK.

Note

• After you change a property in Commerce Server Manager, you must restart all services that use those values. For instructions, see Restarting IIS and Commerce Server Services.

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