you're looking for host headers, i believe. go to the propertied of your website, pick "Advanced" on the Website tab. under "Multiple Identities", add a new one, and use a host header for each virtual site you want to use, as in the "THISAPP.BLAH.BLAH.BLAH" from your example.
christopher olive, cto, vp of web development atnet solutions, inc. 410.931.4092 http://www.atnetsolutions.com -----Original Message----- From: Reed Powell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 11:06 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Setting up IIS to parse domain name? Well, we're trying to move into the 20th century finally, by moving our shared Intranet CF/webserver box from NT4 and WebsitePro to Win2K and IIS. I'd like to try and make it a "better world" for the users as well, but I'm stumped. On the NT4/WebsitePro server we have each site setup as a virtual directory. We also have a couple of DNS aliases setup so that users of each app can see a domain name that makes sense to them, but in reality we could swap those aliases around and it wouldn't matter, since they all point to the same canonical DNS name, and it's the /BLAH that comes after it that gets the users to the correct virtual directory. I know (but cannot seem to figure out how to make it happen) that Win2K/IIS5 can parse the domain name info that comes over from the HTTP request, and use it to determine which IIS website to go to to find the user's page. That would be great, because sometimes users leave off that /BLAH, and end up in some other guy's website, all confused and upset. If IIS can look at the URL coming in on the HTTP request and say "Aha, THISAPP.BLAH.BLAH.BLAH refers to website THISAPP" then that would be what I'm trying to do. Vanna, I need to buy a vowel. Anyone out there have a vowel? I've been up one site of the IIS menus and down the other, and nothing seems to work. Can this capability point to a virtual directory, or just to a website under IIS? thanks for the help that I know will be coming! -reed FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ______________________________________________________________________ Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusiona FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
