In my organization, we use Splunk on a completely isolated network. I'd like to make it so that my users can just enter in a DNS name into their browser address bar (i.e. http://splunk/ ) instead of having to enter http://<node_ip_address>:8000 . As you may have guessed, I have zero experience when it comes to web hosting configuration.
I have Splunk installed on a Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 machine, and Splunk is its only purpose. I've set the name of this box to "Splunk", and it has entries in our DNS. I changed the port on the Splunk box to 80. On the local machine (machine named "Splunk"), it works like a charm, I enter http://splunk/ and it goes to the sign in page. But on the rest of the network, I get "server timed out" messages. I tried turning off the firewall on the "Splunk" machine just to see if that would help but no dice.
I should also add that we host no other corporate sites or web services, Splunk will be the only one for the foreseeable future.
Any ideas on how to make this work? Do I have to install (and learn) IIS or something like that? Any help is greatly appreciated!
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