I'm trying to setup a simple ARR system. I have 1 ARR machine load balancing between 2 APP servers. I can reach the app sites if i use the server name of the ARR machine. (http://arrserver/app) But i can't do it with its IP address. (http://10.7.10.25/app). It gives the "Bad Request – Invalid Hostname". In the ARR machine i configured the default site's bindings to "All Unassigned","80" (default values). Do i need to change the binding rule or need additional url rewrite rules? And also, in the ARR server http://127.0.0.1/app doesn't work. But http://localhost/app works fine.
Thx in advance
Best Answer
The IP address and the Host Header Name are two different entries. IIS is telling you that it doesn't know what site to send the HTTP request to, since when you set the "Host Header Name" field, it allows you to put multiple websites on the same IP and Port. If you can leave it blank, do.
If you can't, the way I've overcome this in the past is to make two websites, one bound to the host name, and the other bound to everything else. The site without Host Header will redirect all requests to the site with the host header flag.
Check out this site: http://www.orcsweb.com/blog/mark-newnam/how-to-set-up-site-bindings-in-internet-information-services-iis/ - it has a good overview of different IIS site binding configs.