Hello,
I have configured and enabled Domino Web Redirect (plus url redirections doc for \inotes → \iwaredir.nsf) to quickly get people into their inotes from the following url:
http://os-hostname.ourdomain.co.uk/inotes
I would like to change the publicised url to:
I thought this was what virtual hosts were for but I can’t seem to get it to work. Is this possible? or do I need to create DNS records for the new hostname.
Thanks for your help 
Subject: Help with Intranet Virtual Hosts (DNS Record Required?)
Are you using web site documents? Virtual hosts are the old, R5 style way to do it. Unless there are very specific reasons to not use them, web site documents offer a bunch of advantages, so from now on I will assume you are using web site documents. 
When users type in the new URL, the browser has to know to what IP address to resolve it. This requires a DNS entry (which can be an alias for an existing entry). Next, if the requests hits the server, Domino will match the host name against all configured web sites. If there is an exact match (read: a web site document for inotes.ourdomain.co.uk), it will use the configuration specified in that web site document and child rules.
If there is not an exactly matching web site document for that host name, it will use the (one) web site document, that has the property “Use this web site to handle requests which cannot be mapped to any other web sites” enabled.
If none of your web site documents has this property enabled, Domino will return HTTP status code 500 with an informational text “No matching Web Site, unable to process request”.
Since you will most probably not set up your default web site to redirect to iwaredir.nsf, I think you will need both, a DNS entry for inotes.ourdomain.co.uk and a new website document with iwaredir.nsf configured as the home URL.
Hope, I got your requirements correctly.
Subject: RE: Help with Intranet Virtual Hosts (DNS Record Required?)
Hi,
Just wanted to say thanks for your post… you have answered my question perfectly!
Michael