HTTP error 404: The request resource is not found

Question

I have three systems running on IIS7 with static IP address 192.168.66.5. I have configured the system to run on the same IP address with different ports and subdmain like;

1. 192.168.66.5:81 hostname ams.tpf.go.tz

2. 192.168.66.5:82 hostname gmis.tpf.go.tz

3. 192.168.66.5:83 hostname records.tpf.go.tz

4. 192.168.66.5:84 hostname cmis.tpf.go.tz

I configure all these on IIS7 and defined them in the router.
When the client opens ams.tpf.go.tz without specifying the port number, the error 404 is returned: the requested resource is not found.

Answer 1

This recently occurred to me also - make sure your IIS Website is started - mine had been stopped. This is the error I was receiving in Visual Studio:

Unable to start debugging on the web server. The web server could not find the requested resource.

Right Click on your Website (i.e. Default Website) in IIS Manager and click Manage Web Site --> Start.

Navigating to any applications in the IIS Website was showing this error:

HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found.

Answer 2

The easiest way to achieve this is to set the port 80 for the site you want to be the "default" one, since this is the default HTTP port.