Andre, *How are the computers/workstations on the Internet supposed to read your Windows hosts file, to know the IP address ? For that matter, how is that Windows server connected to the Internet ?*
This is something I will have to ask my network admin. You also mention that the Alias tag is superfluous. My intention in adding it was to get to the site by typing https://portal.plugpower.com not https://portal.plugpower.com:8443/SRA/. But this is not the case, using the Alias URL on the server machine gives me a 'page under construction' page. Thanks.