IIS: add binding to Default Web Site

Question

I just started looking at IIS on Windows10.

I have a stupid question. I added a binding to Default Web Site ("www.test.com") in IIS Manager.

I was expecting to see the default page when browsing to this url, but it took me instead to an actual existing page.

Can anyone explain me why?

Answer 1

If you've added www.test.com to your bindings, clients (like your web browser on the same system) still don't know that IIS hosts the site.

see this: Setting up a Host File - Faking URLs

This is useful when dealing with multiple sites:

Site 1:

• test.com
• www.test.com
• www2.test.com

Site 2:

• another.url.com

with just listening to a single IP, you cannot control which request ends up at which site, this is what the binding solves