Step 08: Configuring Alternate Access Mapping in MOSS

With the basic MOSS installation completed in the prior step, this next step has its focus on how we tweaked our MOSS settings to configure alternate access mapping for this project.

Begin by going to the default Sharepoint web application home page. In this example, the default URL will be http://gsa (the name of our server). On this project, as illustrated, that URL takes us directly to the default SharePoint home page:
Alternatively, to use our FQDN (fully qualified domain name), i.e., gsa.tfplocal.net, we have to change our Sharepoint mapping. To do that, go to the Windows Start Menu and select Start > Programs > Microsoft Office Server > Sharepoint Central Administration.
The SharePoint Central Administration site will look something like the screen below. (The port may be different; as illustrated here, the admin site is served on port 3533.) Click on Operations:
Then click on Alternate Access Mappings, as shown here:
That opens a new SharePoint page listing internal URLs and Zones. Click on the URL for your server (in this example, http://gsa…
… to map the internal URL to a public URL, so that when typing in http://gsa.tfplocal.net as a public web address, it will map to http://gsa, the local web address. To do that, here we change the default URL (http://gsa)to our FQDN (gsa.tfplocal.net). Click OK to confirm the change:
You should be back to the “Alternate Access Mappings” page. Make sure “Sharepoint â€“ 80″ is selected as the Alternate Access Mapping Collection in the upper-right corner, as shown highlighted here:
Now when we go to the “Alternate Access Mapping” page, we can see the newly mapped URL for our server listed as http://gsa.tfplocal.net: