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Home > Thinking out aloud - Dave Hunter's SharePoint Blog > Posts > Changing the URL (host header) in SharePoint 2007
My thoughts and findings on Microsoft Information worker technologies, including MCMS and SharePoint 2007 (MOSS).

29/02/2008

Changing the URL (host header) in SharePoint 2007
I have a SharePoint portal with the host header "http://intranet", I want to change this to "http://intranet.mycompany.com".
 
 
What's the process?
 
After some investigation, I changed it using the steps below:
 
1. Open Central Administration.
2. Browse to "Operations" and then to "Alternate Access Mappings".
 

3. Click on the dropdown displaying "Show All", select "Change Alternate Access Mapping Collection".
 

4. Choose the URL you wish to modify.
5. Select "Edit Public URLs".
 

6. Change the URL's for the zones you have defined in this case change default from http://intranet to http://intranet.mycompany.com and click save.
 

7. Update IIS to reflect these changes made to SharePoint.  Open IIS Manager, expand the nodes and locate the web site.
8. Right click and select properties.
9. Click on the Web Site tab.
10. Click on advanced.
11. Modify the host header to the new value.
 

12. Click OK and close IIS Manager.
13. Perform an IISRESET (Start > Run > IISRESET).
 
That's it, job done ...
 

Posted at 12:30 by Dave Hunter | Category: SharePoint - Administration | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (10)
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Re: Changing the URL (host header) in SharePoint 2007

Thanks for this articles, was really helpful. Another thing you've ommited is to modify the hosts file with the new hostheader value
at 10/04/2008 12:37

changing the URL

Hello i followed closely and it gave me an ideal but still had difficulties.I have the url  shown below

http://lmcssps05:17198/
I want to change it to http://intranet,How best can i go about its,i tried the above procedure but its failed.

Masialeti
masialetick@gmail.com
at 14/04/2008 09:10

Wonderful

I was hitting my head for the last three hours. Thank you very much the detailed explanation.

--
Esen
at 16/05/2008 18:54

Great

This was quite helpful. Thankyou
at 05/07/2008 23:16

Thks

nice and easy.

Thanks

james
at 18/07/2008 13:45

changing the url

does this work for sharepoint 2003
at 16/09/2008 13:31

Thanks

Really glad I got this!
Thanks allot!
at 21/09/2008 20:44

DNS needs to be updated with the new name and server IP as well

@ Masialeti
Make sure your DNS server is pointing intranet to that server's IP.
at 23/10/2008 14:57

Cannot connect to shared document folders from internet

I can browse perfectly until I click on a folder within a document library.

At this point the URL reverts to an internal one
eg external
http://myserver.com:port etc
reverts to internal
http://myserver:port etc

Does anyone know a way around this please?

Valéria
at 28/10/2008 13:29

Thanks!

GeminiMonkey
at 18/11/2008 22:04

 Dave Hunter

I'm currently a Senior Consultant at Netstore 2e2. I specialise in Microsoft Information Worker technologies (especially MOSS, MCMS and .NET), with over 8 years of experience within this area of specialism. 

I have gained two certifications for MOSS and WSS and look to complete the full certification track soon.

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