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I have a web server on Windows 2003 build with Apache and SQL (plus php module). Everything works fine when I enter the IP address of this server in a browser. Now I want this web server can be accessed from a specific URL like abc.com for example. This website will remain internal for company use, not accessible from the internet. I tried to do things in the DNS, but no success. Can you guide me a way to access my website with a specific URL?
First check if there isn't any problem connecting to the DNS server. If your DNS is handled internally on Windows 2003: open the DNS console -> your DNS server -> Forward Lookup Zones -> New Host: is the name you want the IP address of your Web server. And that's all!
Thank you for input but that's what I did and it does not work. It does not work because I just discovered a problem on my domain controller. I have lots of error above. I even tried to make aliases while adding a new host but got a failure. So I will first address these errors and re-test later.
If you ping to abc.com, do you reach the IP address of your internal web server? Did you added a servername or ServerAlias matches the name abc.com in conf file of Apache? In the case of Intranet you should create a dns record with a specific name to your intranet server.