How do I change the Sharepoint URL path?

[Raymond Chiu (gatorback]

BACKGROUND
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The path for sharepoint sites is: http://myServer/sites.

QUESTION
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How do change this to: http://FQDN/sites without renaming my server to the
FQDN?

I tried to do this for 4 hours last night. I have chronicled this in the
next section.

WHAT I'VE TRIED SO FAR
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I believe that "Connect to SharePoint server" page is where this change
needs to be performed. There are three fields in this page.

I suspect that the second field: "Create a site under this Sharepoint URL"
is where the change needs to made (currently it is set to:
http://myServer/site).

I tried to change the second field to http://FQDN:80/site, however, the
following error is returned: 'Project Server can not connect to the
specified server running WSS. Please check the http: protocols and port #s
in both URLs.'

 

[Raymond Chiu (gatorback]

Symptoms of this problem include that WSS sites only are visible when
browsing from the LAN. WAN (internet) users can not access URLs of the
format http://myServer/sites