Is there a way to have a virtual directory in iis 7 point to another domain?

Question

Let us say I have two subdomains: http://content.mydomain.com and http://app.mydomain.com.

http://content.mydomain.com is pointing at a different server than http://app.mydomain.com is. Is there a way to get a url of http://app.domain/content to point to http://content.mydomain.com without the url in the browser changing to the subdomain?

I am trying to get this to work in IIS 7 / 6 and am having issues.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Yes. As Vivek commented you need to use URL Re-Writing for this, and use a technique called a "Reverse Proxy".

If IIS 7 is your first machine, then you have the options of:

• IIS ReWrite Module
• ISAPI ReWrite

If IIS6 is your first machine, then you only have the option of ISAPI ReWrite.

The exact methods differ depending on your rewriting method, so choose one and then do a search on exactly how to do it.