IIS 7 redirect

Why not set the server up so testserver.company.local/production is the root of the site and then set index.htm as a default page?

I presume DNS already points test.company.com to testserver.company.local.

Open IIS, go to the website, select HTTP Redirect from the window in the middle, and click the box that says redirect websites to: and put in the location you want to redirect to.

Edit: It should be noted that HTTP redirect can break certain web applications. RD Gateway, for instance (Found that out the hard way)

create an dns entry for test.company.com pointing to your webserver.
create a new webpage listening to the url "test.company.com"
create a default document at this page redirecting the user to  http://testserver.company.local/production/index.htm

Thank you all for you responses.

The DNS entry has already been created and tested.

I should also mention that the port it's listening on is 8183 so the actual link is http://testserver.company.local:8183/production/index.htm

The method I mentioned will account for that without issues. Anything that lands on the root of the website will redirect to /production

Once I enable HTTP redirection in IIS 7, is my path going to be the location of the index.htm file?

Unfortunately we don't have anyone here who is all that familiar with IIS.

Thank you

Just put in http://testserver.company.local:8183/production/index.htm for the path and it will go exactly there.

Unfortunately this didn't work. I will have to continue working on this tomorrow.

Thank you