Renaming an Application

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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 rename an application

  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:

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    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 the port number you are using, see the TCP port box in the Web Servers tab.
    IIS application path Type the path to the IIS application. For example, for the application www.microsoft.com/msn, the path would be /msn.

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    • 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.

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  • After you change a property value in Commerce Server Manager, you must unload the IIS applications in the site from memory on each Web server in order for the change to take effect. For instructions, see Unloading an Application from Memory.

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