Assigning a Host Header (Pointer/Binding) to Your Web Site


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If you want to use a sub-domain or have already created a domain or domain alias, follow these instructions to assign it to your website as a Host Header. If you need to create the domain or domain alias, follow the instructions the "Managing Domains" article and then come back to this article.  The Easy Hosting Control control panel refers to Host Headers as Web Site Domain Pointers. IIS 7+ refers to Host Headers as Bindings.

From the Hosting Account screen as shown in Figure 1, select “Web Sites".

Figure 1
Figure 1

The “Web Sites” screen, as shown in Figure 2, shows a list of all your Web Sites. Click the desired website.

Figure 2
Figure 2

The “Web Site Properties” screen, as shown in Figure 3, shows the domains associated with the site. Click the “Add Web Site Pointer” button to add the new domain.

Figure 3
Figure 3

The “Add Web site Domain Pointer” screen, as shown in Figure 4, shows a dropdown list containing all domains, sub-domains, and domain aliases that are not currently bound to any website. Select the domain you want to bind to the current website and click the “Add Pointer” button. If you want to create a new sub-domain, you select the root domain and then enter the sub-domain in the empty box to the left of the domain selection box.

Figure 4
Figure 4

Figure 5 shows the new website host header as being bound to this website.

Figure 5
Figure 5

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