I am new to Sharepoint and have installed Sharepoint 2013 foundation on Windows 2008 R2 for the purposes of using it as an Intranet. With regards to this question, I think 2013 and 2010 are quite similar in this respect. The server name is WLSHAREPOINT.
So, I get to the Central Admin page and click to create a new Site Collection. I am forced to choose a 'web site address, which is created off the root. I did that and ended up with my sharepoint site at
http://wlsharepoint/home
Firstly, how can I get my site to appear when just typing http://wlsharepoint into a browser?
Secondly, to make it even easier I would like to create an alias or alternative name mapping so my users just need to type "http://intranet" into a browser and they get taken to my site.
So, again in the Central Admin page I went to 'configure alternative access name', changed the mapping collection to 'sharepoint - 80', clicked 'add internal URL', called it 'intranet' and set it as intranet zone. Then I went into IIS, found the sharepoint - 80 site and created a binding....
Type: http
Host name: intranet
Port:
80
I also created an internal DNS A record for 'intranet' and pointed that to the server IP.
However, when I try http://intranet or http://intranet/home, neither work.
Please can you point me in the right direction!?
Thanks
M+