using a custom url on iis server instead of IP Address

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I have hosted an Asp.Net MVC application on to IIS 8 in windows server 2012 and to open the webpage currently I use the address like 10.10.10.10. Is there anyways I can make it customized like www.example.com to access the page. I have done a bit of research but couldn't find a better way to do it.

I am using IIS 8 and Windows Server 2012 to disploy

You can put your custom host name in your DNS server. like myapp.mydomain.local. — Mikael Dúi Bolinder, Mar 25 '14 at 18:51
Read http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771629.aspx on how to bing a hostname to a specific site in IIS 8 — Mikael Dúi Bolinder, Mar 25 '14 at 19:01

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 25 '14 at 18:54

Assuming the 10.x.x.x address implies that it's on a local domain/network.

There are two easy ways you can do this:

Host your own DNS server and add an entry for www.example.com to resolve to 10.10.10.10
Edit your hosts file C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts adding a new line 10.10.10.10 www.example.com

Note option 2, will only work for the computer you edit the hosts file on.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 25 '14 at 18:55

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Of course there is! You will need to edit the "hosts" file:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)

Basically point that IP(10.10.10.10) to www.example.com

answered Mar 25 '14 at 18:55

shuskic

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 25 '14 at 18:57

You need to resolve domain name to IP. You can:

use machine name instead of IP (like http://serverName/pages... ) or sometimes fully qualified domain name of the machine (like http://serverName.my.organization.com/pages... if your company have AD or internal DNS setup for that)
if you have local DNS server for organization you can register DNS record with
if your IP is public you can use public DNS servers to register the name with
you can use local hosts file to provide DNS mapping on your local machine
you can use Fiddler as proxy and resolve DNS names with it

using a custom url on iis server instead of IP Address

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