I have installed mojo portal via the web platform installer and Now I cannot get the site to run under anything but local host.  I have a domain registered on GoDaddy and have created my A and C records but it will not load in the through the domain.  I have the site under default site in IIS and the files are listed in the inetput and www path.  I have tried moving the application folder and recreating the website and no matter what I do I cannot get the app to load outside of localhost.  What do I need to do.  Please help.  I am willing to pay for the help.  I need this site live.

Sorry for the confusion.  I am perfectly aware that my local system and GoDaddy have nothing to do with one another.  So let me clarify.  GoDaddy is the registrar that my domain is associated with.  I modified the DNS settings of the A and C records to point to the app hosted on my server.  Using the MS Web Platform installer it was install to the localhost in my servers IIS.  I have tried recreating the Application reference for IIS outside of the default website of IIS which, at this point, has Mojo portal set up as an application of the default website; default website is an default app created in IIS but I think you are aware of that.  Anyway, the application (Mojo Portal) will only run in at http://localhost/whatwhyhow no matter what I do.  My DNS record points to my server and has the application domain as http://www.whatwhyhow.co.  Does this make more sense?  I hope so.

Thanks for working with me on this but I have set up many websites in IIS and know exactly what you are talking about.  My DNS settings have be set for two days.  The A record is pointing to my servers IP and the C record is listed with host "WWW" as whatwhyhow.co  I am a little confused with the default website of IIS however.  Remember, I installed the app using the MS Web Platform installer and it installed it under the default website as an application of the default website.  I have "removed" that website instance in IIS and created an "Application" instance of the app outside of default website and it will not load.  This is the main issue of the post.  I am believing that there is a setting in Mojo Portal that was created in the install, using the web platform installer, that may be causing this.  I am sure that my DNS setting are correct and I do not believe that I the process of creating the website / application instance in IIS incorrect.  It is not my first time doing it.  But for the sake of things I will walk through the steps of what I do to create a website in IIS.

1) right click "Sites" and select "Add Website"

2) Type in Site Name

3) point to the physical path

4) apply the Host Name (www.whatwhyhow.co)

5) select Ok

6) add binding "whatwhyhow.co", notice that I have removed the www.

that is it.

Notice that I am using .co not .com

this is something that I would not think would make a difference but that is the domain I have.

I then try to browse to the site and get nothing.  I have moved the application out of the www root folder to another folder, as I have with all my 15 other sites and that did not make a difference.  I will make clear, and you can probably tell, that my skill set is development and I only have little knowledge of DNS and Server / IIS management.

Any other thoughts.

All Joe is saying is correct but more fundamentally there is no sign of whatwhyhow.co either on whois.co or using dnsstuff.com tools. Looks like you need to talk to your registrar.

J

Gentlemen, thank you for all your help and time.  I have discovered that it was what we call a "User Error" on my part.  I overlooked the omission of the word and in the domain name.  It should have been whatwhyandhow.co.  I will buy a beer Joe for the effort.   John you do not have a beer link or I would get you one too.  Thanks to both of you.