Install Sharepoint

Question

After installing sharepoint on our builds server, all of our sites in IIS no longer worked. Obviously, Sharepoint is installed on port 80, and everything is directed to Sharepoint. Now I changed the port to 81, but the question is, is it possible to run sharepoint on port 80 along with our regular sites? And how about the course? We have experience working with IIS, but they are not experts, so if you explain, keep this in mind. Maybe there are some links or Microsoft support, how to do this?

Answer 1

Ultimately, you make it a lot harder trying to run regular sites at the same URL as SharePoint. If there is no good business reason for this, I would never do it. Why not get an extra DNS record and host SharePoint on your own host header? You don’t even need a DNS record if all developers put the site in their HOSTS file.

We have many "fake" DNS records, such as dev.project.local and build.project.local, etc. It works like a charm and you never get those ugly port numbers.

Answer 2

You can do this through central administration by adding it as a managed path, here's the full story:

Allow web applications to coexist with Windows SharePoint Services

Answer 3

I usually do this for multiple sites running on the same SharePoint Front-End server. I use several zones with host headers, alternative access mapping (in central administration) and IIS bindings. This will launch several web applications from the same port 80. Some of them are external and have anonymous access. Some of them have zone-based security rules.

Answer 4

First of all: you can easily use the same port for multiple sites on the same server as long as you use a different website name (URL) . For example, you can use "ContosoWebSite.com" and "ContosoSharePoint.com" using both default ports (80) on the same server. To do this, you will need to perform three configurations:

• SharePoint Alternate Access Compatibility.
• Configure IIS site binding.
• DNS (or the Hosts file for each client computer. For the working environment, use DNS. But for dev machines, you can use the Hosts file)

Another option is to use the same site name (maybe the server name), but with different ports. For example, you can use "ContosoServer: 80" and "ContosoServer: 8875" with the same name (ContosoServer).

Please feel free to ask for clarification.