Incorrect path in browser, but only over the Internet   

I have successfully installed Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 on a single 
server setup.
I have created a site called ‘Projects’ under the default site ‘Site’ and I 
have created two sites under this, to hold two different projects.

On the internal network I can get to both of the sites under ‘Projects’ 
without a problem.  The URL in the browser displays correctly and if I check 
the site settings, it shows the paths correctly e.g. 

http://portal.mysite.com/sites/projects/sap and 
http://portal.mysite.com/sites/projects/crm

From the Internet, everything displays ok up to projects e.g. 
http://portal.mysite.com/sites/projects/  , but as soon as I click the link 
to go to one of the sub-sites, the browser displays the internal Sharepoint 
server IP address e.g. http://192.168.0.55/sites/projects/crm and can’t find 
the page.

I assume that somewhere in my setup I need to set a default path all sites 
to use.  Could somebody please advise me what to do?

Thanks in advance for any help

Ian

date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 07:58:01 -0700   author:   IanW

Re: Incorrect path in browser, but only over the Internet   

Ian,

    Did you configure the alternate portal site URLs for intranet and 
extranet?  If not that may be the problem.  Under SharePoint Portal Server 
Central Administration -> Portal Site and Virtual Server Configuration -> 
Configure alternate portal site URLs for intranet, extranet and custom 
access.  There you can define how SharePoint formats the URLs it returns to 
browsers based on what you base URL is.  For example you might use 
http://portal.mycompany.com for external (extranet) access and 
http://intranet.mycompany.com for internal access.  Based on the setting you 
define and the base requested URL SharePoint will alter the URL composition 
to ensure you get the correct URL depending you where you are accessing 
SharePoint from.  MS doesn't recommend using the same URL path for both 
internal and external access, probably for this reason.  An alternate way to 
get around this would be to use URL substitution on your firewall/Proxy 
server (like ISA 2004) but again it's not a best practice and depending on 
the complexity of the URLs it may or may not always work correctly.

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"IanW"  wrote in message 
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>I have successfully installed Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 on a single
> server setup.
> I have created a site called 'Projects' under the default site 'Site' and 
> I
> have created two sites under this, to hold two different projects.
>
> On the internal network I can get to both of the sites under 'Projects'
> without a problem.  The URL in the browser displays correctly and if I 
> check
> the site settings, it shows the paths correctly e.g.
>
> http://portal.mysite.com/sites/projects/sap and
> http://portal.mysite.com/sites/projects/crm
>
> From the Internet, everything displays ok up to projects e.g.
> http://portal.mysite.com/sites/projects/  , but as soon as I click the 
> link
> to go to one of the sub-sites, the browser displays the internal 
> Sharepoint
> server IP address e.g. http://192.168.0.55/sites/projects/crm and can't 
> find
> the page.
>
> I assume that somewhere in my setup I need to set a default path all sites
> to use.  Could somebody please advise me what to do?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help
>
> Ian
>
>

date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:50:06 -0400   author:   James Price