Redirecting in IIS

[WobbleWobble]

I'd like www.domain.com/redirect/ to point to another IIS web server while keeping the www.domain.com/redirect/ part of the address so that it looks transparent to the user. Is this possible?

I have it redirecting but it changes the URL.

 

[Garion]

Nope - A hostname binds a connection to a specific server. If you do a redirect, you're going to send them to another server. The *only* way to do that is if the first server is some kind of proxy, brokering the connections between the client and the final web server. That's very complex and not, in general, doable.

- G

 

[WobbleWobble]

I have admin access to both machines, the one with the address and the other server.

Main machine has domain.ca, but the files are on the other server.

Can I create the site using domain.ca on the other machine as well and have that do http://www.domain.ca/folder? So essentially split a domain with multiple machines without using subdomains (http://folder.domain.ca).

 

[Garion]

A hostname is bound to a single, specific IP address (unless you're using round-robin DNS, which isn't the case here and won't help you). DNS is what you're depending on to get your request to the right server and DNS only deals with mapping a hostname to a specific IP address. It doesn't have any visibility into the URL to route it where you want it, just the hostname.

- G

 

[WobbleWobble]

Darn, I didn't think it was possible.

The machines are networked so I could map the virtual folder to the other computer or I could create a subdomain. The problem with the subdomain route is we're a large organzation and it's controlled by another group who isn't very nice 🙁

Thanks for your help!

 

[netsysadmin]

You can create a virtual directory in IIS that will allow you to point to a directory on another computer even though the web address resides on the original IIS server. You can also do that with a sub-domain and also an addtion site in IIS.

John