Subdomain to point to subdirectory of main site?

Question

I have my website running at:

www.example.com

I also have this other domain:

www.example.net

Is it possible to point "www.example.net" to a subdirectory of "www.example.com"? For example:

www.example.net-> www.example.com/other

?

It's not just a redirect, I need to serve the pages and see "www.example.net" in the user's browser.

What do you think?

We use IIS7 and everything is ASP.NET (aspx pages, ascx controls, etc).

Answer 1

Using ISAPI Rewrite

[ISAPI_Rewrite]

RewriteCond  Host:  (?:www\.)?other\.com
RewriteRule  (.*)   http://www.domain.com/other$1 [I,L]

Answer 2

You're looking at two methods for this:

• URL rewriter
• Server.Execute method

The first is a httpmodule that silently redirects the request without changing the url in the address bar, the second is a method you can call within aspx code. I think the latter is only good though if you're working in the same application, so I would go with the URL rewriter.

There is an official iis7 URL rewriter available on www.iis.net afaik.

-Oisin

Answer 3

Two questions for you:

1. Can you set them up as two different web sites in IIS?
2. If someone visited example.net/page.htm, would that be the same as example.com/other/page.htm?

If the answer is yes to both of those, why not just setup a new web site in IIS and point it to the "other" file path.