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There are situations where we have the site specified like below in several configurations, for example like in GPO we specify the ___location of the Automatic Proxy Configuration script to be at ___location:
https://192.168.172.1/wpad.dat, so to make this not depending on the availability of DNS resolving.
In IIS7, we could register the IP address as hostname. If we do this in IIS8, I get the failure message:
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Edit Site Binding
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The specified host name is incorrect. The host name must use a valid host name format and cannot contain the following characters: "/\[]:|<>+=;,?*$%#@{}^`. Example: www.contoso.com.
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OK
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This is by design in IIS 8 UI. Hence we wont be able to skip this from UI. Though as a workaround you can directly edit applicationhost.config from %SystemRoot%\system32\inetsrv\config folder. Please do take a back up of this file before directly editing. Once backed up, open applicationhost.config file in notepad. Try finding the bindings something like and add it manually:
<site name="mstest" id="4" serverAutoStart="true">
<application path="/" applicationPool="mstest">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\inetpub\wwwroot" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:80:mydomainnamedotcom" />
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:80:192.168.172.1" />
</bindings>
</site>
This seems to work in my black box testing. Let me know if any comments or suggestions.
~ Devendra Asane