Configure Web Application Host Header.

The local portal will use the local host URL to be accessed from the browser internally and www.ahs.ae
for internet.

To configure the host header of the Website web application, do the following on the front end server:

Open Internet Information Services Manager
Expand the Server Name node
Expand the Web Sites node
Right click on the AHS Website Web Application web site and click Edit Bindings.
Click Add:
- Set the IP address to All Unassigned
- Set the TCP port to 80
- Set the Host name to www.ahs.ae
- Click OK
Click OK twice.

Figure 36 – Website Internet Host Header

Configure the Alternate Access Mapping.

Finally, we need to configure the alternate access mapping for the Portal Web application.

Open the central administration website, and follow the below steps:

Click on the Operations Tab.
Under the Global Configuration section, click on the Alternate access mappings link.
Under the Alternate Access Mappings page, click on the Internal URL of the Portal web application.
Click Cancel
Click Add Internal URLs from the toolbar
Under the Internal URLs page:
- Set the URL to be http://local
- Keep the Zone to Default
- Click OK
Under the Internal URLs page:
- Set the URL to be http://local.ahs.ae
- Keep the Zone to Default
- Click OK
Under the Internal URLs page:
- Set the URL to be http://www.ahs.ae
- Keep the Zone to Internet
- Click OK

Figure 37 – Website Web Application URLs