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DNS Entry/Host Header

Is there a way to point a host header or dns entry to a virtual directory? that is a quip entry x could point to http://x/y

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Ruscal

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twinfrey

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Yes. that approach i considered but there are more invitees to the party. this is a commerce server solution that we are trying to tackle a specific problem. To move it to another web site is quite a bit of configuration.

is there any trick that can be applied with redirection?

Ruscal

not in the web server itself, but you could make your default page on the server a scripted page that looks at the value passed as the hostname and then does the switching based on that.

in asp.net i'd be something like having a default.aspx page with the following tidbit of code in it.

Then if you went to mail.domain.com it would redirect you to www.domain.com/mail otherwise it'd take you to index.html

The variations from that point all depend on the number of sites you want to do this with, but from that point it should be academic.

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
    If Request.Url.Host = "mail.domain.com" Then
        Response.Redirect("http://www.domain.com/mail/", True)
    Else
        Response.Redirect("http://www.domain.com/index.html", True)
    End If
End Sub

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twinfrey

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Thought about that too, but the requesting object is not the user. That is, in this case, the site has external links requesting marketing information from a virtual directory path. So I am not sure that an asp redirect would return the correct response.

I think you answered my question though.