Browsing Non-Sharepoint Directories

[beasleyd]

I just recently (yesterday!) migrated our Sharepoint 2000 site to a Sharepoint 2003 setup. Wow. Lots of big differences, chief of which is the fact that the entire website is now stored in a database file. My only complaint is this:

We shared our previous Sharepoint site with OTHER web apps... mainly our Help Desk. If our SP site is located at

http://server,

then our help desk was at

http://server/support.

Catch my drift?

Now, when trying to set up other web directories through IIS (in the

http://wwwroot),

I only get 404'd when trying to access them. I'm guessing because all port 80 connections are forwarded the the SP application.

How can I make certain URLs bypass Sharepoint? We have to make this change live and I need to make it as seamless a transaction as possible.

 

[Beowulf005]

You need to move the directories out of

http://wwwroot

and into a new folder. IE
C:\....\

http://wwwroot\help

desk
C:\....\help desk

In IIS
Change the host header for

http://wwwroot

to something like sharepoint (most use companyweb)

Create a new website using a file directory and map it to
C:\....\help desk
Change the host header to something like Helpdesk
Don't forget to assign a default page.

Now you should be able to open the help desk site by opening IE and typing helpdesk for the url.

HTH
Brian

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