Configuring IIS for for ASP web pages

I'm conguring my first web server which I have named ns1.scott-server.com. I have pointed 2 of my domain names to the server, online-contract.com and scott-server.com. I created virtual directies for both web sites, and I gave the IUSR account read permissions to the files and directories. When I visit http://ns1.scott-server.com/scott-server and http://ns1.scott-server.com/online-contract, I can see the dummy default.asp files. However, I get a page not found error when I visit http://scott-server.com or http://online-contract.com. I guess that I need to tell IIS what domain names to resolve and where to find their files, but I thought the virtual directory would do this for me.

I would really appreciate any help that I can get with this problem.

This sounds like a DNS issue where the names aren't resolving to your server.

Try a tracert or ping & see if you can get to the server. You should not need to configure domain names in IIS unless you're using host headers.

Thank you for the help, Doug G.

I tried to ping and tracert both domain names and both were unsuccessful. The pings attempt said unknown host and the tracerts said unable to resolve target system name.

I have changed the name servers for both domains to ns1.scott-server.com with their domain registrars, and my computer responds to the name ns1.scott-server.com.

Any ideas how I may correct the DNS problem? Thanks again for your help!

Well, I did a little background checking with the domain name registrar. I have sucecssfully pointed the domains to my IP address and name server. This can be verified via the whois function. With the help of my domain registrar, I determined that the ping and tracert will not work because my web server is not configured correctly.

I am having a terrible time finding others who have configured DNS on their own web servers. I am very much looking forward to any ideas that could get me on the right track with this.

Thanks!
Scott

Maybe some of these will help?

thank you Memnoch, that did help. I can now load one of the domains that I have pointed to my server, but only when I put the www. in front of the domain.

I'd like to configure the server to load the domain with or without the www, any suggestions? Thanks again!

you need to built another DNS server yourself or register
at ohters people DNS server to point the ns1.yourdomain.com
to yourdomain.com.
In the DNS server, you can setting that
yourdomain.com = ns1.yourdomain.com
ns1.yourdomain.com = your IP

then you can visit your page without www.