can this be solved using ASP?

[c676228]

Hi All,

Our company is merging two production domains(from two different servers)
onto one server. So during the migration we use an intranet testing server to
hold all files from these two domain, when we do testing, we use host file to
map intranet IPs to these two domains. It will not impact on production
sites since it won't be seen externally. These two domains navigable each
other, that means from domainA we have links to domainB, while from domainB,
we have links to domainA.
These domain names are all hard coded in the program.
Now it seems a big problem. When we move all these file to a new production
server which is at a public hosting company, we need to do testing, at this
moment,
old production servers are still running and we have to use IPs to do
testing, cannot map IPs to domain names at all. That means all hard-coded
links from domainA to domainB will not work, and I have to change all the
links from domain name to IP?
Then when we finally go live with our new production server, I have switch
back to
domain name, what a mess? I didn't think through all those steps when we did
it.
Anybody has better solution?
Thank you so much

 

[Adrienne Boswell]

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed =?Utf-8?B?YzY3NjIyOA==?=

Hi All,

Our company is merging two production domains(from two different
servers) onto one server. So during the migration we use an intranet
testing server to hold all files from these two domain, when we do
testing, we use host file to map intranet IPs to these two domains. It
will not impact on production sites since it won't be seen
externally. These two domains navigable each other, that means from
domainA we have links to domainB, while from domainB, we have links to
domainA. These domain names are all hard coded in the program.
Now it seems a big problem. When we move all these file to a new
production server which is at a public hosting company, we need to do
testing, at this moment,
old production servers are still running and we have to use IPs to do
testing, cannot map IPs to domain names at all. That means all
hard-coded links from domainA to domainB will not work, and I have to
change all the links from domain name to IP?
Then when we finally go live with our new production server, I have
switch back to
domain name, what a mess? I didn't think through all those steps when
we did it.
Anybody has better solution?
Thank you so much

If they are hard coded absolute paths, you should be able to do a global
search and replace, eg. replace http://www.example.com/somepage.asp with
http://www.example.net/somepage.asp just replace all example.com with
example.net.

 

[Steven Cheng]

Hi Betty,

How many pages or links will you need to replace here? I'm afraid for such
scenario, there hasn't any quick & simple means to do a replace or
redirection. Also, since the problem only occurs during the time your pages
are deployed on external server and want to test from internal, I think
adding additional code logic to do redirection is also not quite
reasonable. I will still suggest manually replace those link's servername.

Steven Cheng
Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead

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[c676228]

Hi Steven,

I am thinking I will still use host file to map our domain name to our new
production server for testing. That way I don't need to write any code or
replace any code. But I am not sure if it is OK or if it will confuse google
search engine or some DNS Servers since our DNS server will still point our
domain name to our current(old) production server (old IP address).

I am just wondering if the real world will see our domain name has two IPs
since our new production server is located at public hosting company too.

Or the question is if you use another IP to map to a domain name in
production for the purpose of testing, will it hurt our current production
site?

Hopefully
--
Betty

Hi Betty,

How many pages or links will you need to replace here? I'm afraid for such
scenario, there hasn't any quick & simple means to do a replace or
redirection. Also, since the problem only occurs during the time your pages
are deployed on external server and want to test from internal, I think
adding additional code logic to do redirection is also not quite
reasonable. I will still suggest manually replace those link's servername.

Steven Cheng
Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead

Delighting our customers is our #1 priority. We welcome your comments and
suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please
feel free to let my manager know what you think of the level of service
provided. You can send feedback directly to my manager at:
(e-mail address removed).

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Steven Cheng]

Hi Betty,

I think host file solution should work for your own internal network since
you can control the host files for your internal client machines or the
local DNS server. However, for external network and environment, when they
visit the ASP pages and visit the link, they'll get the actual IP through
internet DNS server, I think it will exsit some difference between your
internal clients. Do you think so?

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:07:01 -0700

Hi Steven,

I am thinking I will still use host file to map our domain name to our new
production server for testing. That way I don't need to write any code or
replace any code. But I am not sure if it is OK or if it will confuse google
search engine or some DNS Servers since our DNS server will still point our
domain name to our current(old) production server (old IP address).

I am just wondering if the real world will see our domain name has two IPs
since our new production server is located at public hosting company too.

Or the question is if you use another IP to map to a domain name in
production for the purpose of testing, will it hurt our current production
site?

Hopefully

 

[Steven Cheng]

Hi Betty,

Any progress on this issue? Have you determined which way to do for mapping
the server name?

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


Delighting our customers is our #1 priority. We welcome your comments and
suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please
feel free to let my manager know what you think of the level of service
provided. You can send feedback directly to my manager at:
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This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.