Steps to Change your SharePoint URL or SharePoint Site that as Host Name to User Friendly URL




If you are looking to change your Existing SharePoint URL (Ex – http://sp2010:1234) to User Friendly URL Like- http://www.sharepointmcp.com.
Then Follow the following steps.
1.      Open C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc Open Hosts file using Notepad
2.      After              

::1             localhost 

Type the below

127.0.0.1         
www.sharepointmcp.com

save the file.

3.      Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration, Application Management, Under Web Applications, Click on Configure Alternate Access Mappings  - > Edit Public URLs

4.      Select Web Application (http://sp2010:1234 ) on  Alternate Access Mapping Solutions 

5.      Enter Internet URL as  http://www.sharepointmcp.com

6.      Click on Save Button.

You may now face authentication Issue, So now follow the rest of the steps to resolve authentication problem

  1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
  2. In Registry Editor,Browse this path : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\MSV1_0
  3. Right-click MSV1_0,  to   New, and then  Multi-String Value.
  4. Type SharePointHostNames,
  5. Right-click on BackConnectionHostNames, and  click Modify.
  6. In the Value data box, type the host name or the host names for the sites that are on the Host File i.e  www.sharepointmcp.com and then click OK
    Now you can directly login to   http://www.sharepointmcp.com
Good luck

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