connect to vc ui using domain name

[asp24]

I'm trying to access the virtualcenter ui from home using vc.domain.com (pointing to my public vc ip address)

The problem is that the UI login is expecting a machine name and complains about not finding http://vc/ui

When I add a entri in the hosts file, pointing vc to the ip address, everything works

Is it possible to change something to make this work? The virtualcenter server is not a part of a domain, but I have added "domain.com" as domain suffix..

[sbeaver]

Do you have it listed in the DNS server that is the one used when you are home>?

[asp24]

Yes, it IS listed. I can connect to http://vc.comain.com , but when I click on "log in to web access", the address changes to http://vc (the servername is vc). So it redirects to the hostname and not the full domain name..

It SHOULD be https://vc.domain.com/ui but it is https://vc/ui

[BMMGaucho]

I am having the same issue - did you ever find a resolution without editing host files?

[bryanard]

Has anyone found a solution to this?

[bggb29]

try using the serverername with ui/ after it that shoud do it

i/e vcenter.mydomain.com/ui/

then bookmark it like this it should work properly.

Do you have a list of domain prefixes to search on your system. You can do that with OS X or windooz.

[bggb29]

forget as stated above https://vcenter.mydomain.com/ui/

[saunders]

You only seem to get this behavior when you are on the local machine trying it.

If you try it from a "client" machine on a different ip/subnet, it seems to get the FQDN working just fine.

Saunders