SharePoint Installation

KevinCB · 20 Feb 2008 at 12:34

Hi folks,

Has anyone here installed SharePoint?

I work at a college doing development, and the college is going to implement SharePoint. We want to get ahead of the game and look at developing WebParts and the like, and be able to test them out. Except I'm having issues installing it on our server.

When I install Windows SharePoint Server using standalone server settings, it stops the Default Web Site from running. This is a problem, as we currently have a few ASP.NET sites which people on the network are using.
I've tried adding host headers which doesn't work, and I get the message 'Page cannot be displayed'.

After searching on google I found a few people have this problem and they suggest setting up DNS or WINS, which I have no idea how to set up to work with host headers.

We just want to be able to install it on the server we have and access the webpages through the network without compromising the default web site.

Can anyone help me with this issue?

Thanks

oddjob62 · 20 Feb 2008 at 13:08

Need to know a bit more about what's currently set up.

Do you have an internal DNS server? Do you have access to make changes on it?

You need a record for the "sharepoint" website and the "other" website in DNS. Then you can set up your host headers and when people type in the server name they will be connected to the appropriate website.

If you are connecting to the webserver by IP the other alternative could be to give the server another IP address and put each website on different IPs

J.T · 20 Feb 2008 at 13:12

Run it in a VM session, that’s what I am doing at the moment while I figure out how it all works.

If you do though make sure you assign it at least 1GB Ram else it will run like a dog with one leg!

Just an idea, take it or leave it.

KevinCB · 20 Feb 2008 at 14:40

We currently have a Win Server 2003 Tower, connected to the network.
We are administrators of the tower.
We can access the DNS server, but can't edit or make any changes on it.

Looks like it will have to be via a VM Session then.

Thanks

J.T · 20 Feb 2008 at 15:22

If it does turn out to be DNS issues then just connect to it using the IP instead or add the entry to your host file.

Good luck.

Butters · 20 Feb 2008 at 17:09

Go into sharepoint admin and create a new site using a new port. Then remove the default port 80 site. Then use host headers so that when someone types in http://sharepoint.site.com (or whatever) it takes them to the right port defined in IIS.

oddjob62 · 20 Feb 2008 at 20:07

On a web server, for each web site, there are basically 3 attributes. IP, Port and Host header. At least one of these attributes must be different on each web site.

eg. 2 web sites can be on same IP with same host header but different port.

So for example you could put sharepoint on port 81 and then people would connect using http://ipaddressofserver:81

Using host headers will be tricky if you don't have control over DNS. As J.T says the other (messier) way would be to edit your hosts file.

I like the VM route (maybe becuase i've been playing with VMware at work almost every day for the last month

)

J.T · 20 Feb 2008 at 20:43

VM is great, saves with all the faffing around making sure things don't clash as you can run everything on its own VM session, providing you have a powerful enough PC/Workstation/server that is.

wesley · 20 Feb 2008 at 22:26

what is sharepoint?

Butters · 20 Feb 2008 at 22:41

wesley said:
what is sharepoint?

A collaboration toolset for businesses / schools, etc. It allows people to create team sites, host meetings, email maintenance and a million other things.

KevinCB · 21 Feb 2008 at 10:29

Thanks for all the responses.

I downloaded VMWare Server yesterday, so I'll try it through this.
I just need to try and create a windows server iso to install on the vm.
I don't have the disks, but copied the files to the hdd before sending them back to IT

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Trying to create a bootable image in imgburn, but it says the boot img file is the wrong size. :confused:

I downloaded the iso of windows server trial, and extracted the boot img.
But it still doesn't work.

Butters · 21 Feb 2008 at 23:48

KevinCB said:
Thanks for all the responses.

I downloaded VMWare Server yesterday, so I'll try it through this.
I just need to try and create a windows server iso to install on the vm.
I don't have the disks, but copied the files to the hdd before sending them back to IT .
Trying to create a bootable image in imgburn, but it says the boot img file is the wrong size.
I downloaded the iso of windows server trial, and extracted the boot img.
But it still doesn't work.

not going to work. You can't copy the files then try and make a bootable image. You need to make an iso from the CD. Disc Magic (which is free) makes an ISO including the boot image (which hardly any other ISO maker can do).