Sub Domains

[Tanzy]

I know that when you create a sub domain that it is a sub folder, eg

wwwroot
----- SubDomain1
----- SubDomain2

However, is it possible to have subdomain2.yourdomain.com point to the same folder as subdomain1.yourdomain.com

eg

wwwroot
----- SubDomain1, SubDomain2


Cheers

Ken

[RFH Reseller: RMPnet]

Hi Ken,

I don't think you can set an alias of a subdomain.
But you could create subdomain1.yourdomain.com as a full domain and then add an alias of subdomain2.yourdomain.com to it.

Not quite what you're after but close.

Regards
Keith.

[Tanzy]

It's an option but not quite what I'm after. Basically, I have a client that uses DNN. Now the thing is that they want to use subdomains rather than the full domain eg

mainsite.clientsdomain.com - this is the equivilant of www.clientdomain.com (basically it gets redirected to mainsite.clientdomain.com) as the main portal in DNN

then they want another portal for just internal people

internal.clientdomain.com

DNN can handle multiple portals etc, but they do not want to use multiple domains. Hope this explains better what I'm trying to achive.

Ken

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

What about adding mainsite.clientsdomain.com as an alias of the main domain?

[Tanzy]

that may be an option I will have a look at it. One of the main reasons for wanting to alias a subdomain is that they can then have multiple web apps running. I have found that having another application running in a sub directory, where you also have an application running on the main site can cause problems with the app on the sub domain. (Basically down to how it works with the web.config file)

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

But the alias isnt even a new site in IIS, its just a hostheader on the original site - so any settings/applications etc... would apply.

With a sub domain, Helm created a new site in IIS, but things like applications dont apply to it.

[Tanzy]

I will have to think on this and see what I can come up with for my client, I'm sure that I can come up with some sort of cunning plan

[RFH Reseller: Hollywood]

Hi

Glad I found this - it's a bit like what I want to do... only I'm awkward

Basically I want to setup:
- www.parkrun.com
- bushy.parkrun.com
- wimbledon.parkrun.com

All of these will point to the same DNN application (and indeed the same portal) running within parkrun.com

But ideally I'd like the default page for each of the subdomains to be a different DNN Tab - e.g.
- www.parkrun.com/ points to Default.aspx?Tabld=12
- bushy.parkrun.com/ points to Default.aspx?Tabld=24
- wimbledon.parkrun.com/ points to Default.aspx?Tabld=36

Anyone think of an easy way for implementing this? - on my previous host it was easy because I hosted the DNN in a virtual directory - but ideally I'd like to remove the virtual directory now...

Any help appreciated :-)

Thanks

Hollywood

[RFH Reseller: InspireUK]

You can use ISAPI Rewrite to match against the host and then rewrite the url.

Something like this...

RewriteCond Host: www\.parkrun\.com
RewriteRule / /Default.aspx?Tabld=12


RewriteCond Host: bushy\.parkrun\.com
RewriteRule / /Default.aspx?Tabld=24


RewriteCond Host: wimbledon\.parkrun\.com
RewriteRule / /Default.aspx?Tabld=36