Sharepoint DNS redirection

[MrFusion]

Hello everyone, hopefully someone can help me out with this.

I have created a sharepoint team services site eg

http://server/sites/intranet,

I want people to just have to type in

http://intranet

to get there (and not see the real sharepoint path).

I have created a dns record to point to this server (tried both hosta and cname). In IIS under websites I created a new site called intranet and set the host header value to "intranet" in web site identities.

The part that I think I am getting wrong is in the home directory tab (still in IIS). If I select a directory located on this computer, it wont let me enter \\server\sites\intranet (it says the path does not exist or is not a directory). I realise that this is not a real directory, it is a virtual directory, so I don't know what path I can put in here.

If I choose a redirection to a url, it points to the right place, but in IE the address shows as "

http://server/sites/intranet",

not "

http://intranet".

I am running Windows Server 2003 standard, SharePoint Services V2 and IIS V6.

I know that you can do this somehow, my company recently got bought out, the old company hosted our site and a number of others on a single server.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Frank

 

[Thomas2000]

Hi Frank,

I am hosting several sites on my webserver although, each site has it's own virtual server and hostheader name. I do not think that you can actually create a website and then point it to another virtual directory as you tried with the \\server\sites\intranet, as you say it is not a real directory but since you probably do not have that \sites\intranet listed in the website that hosts the SharePoint sites you won't be able to put that in as a path.

As I see it the only way would have been to actually create a new virtual website (intranet) extend it in sharepoint central administration and then create a SharePoint Team site on it with it's own address outside the

http://server/sites/

address, so that it will be a completely site of it's own and not a "subsite" of and other site collection.

I am running 22 websites on a single machine with a single IP-address but they are separate virtual websites, so I do not have the above problem.

I have not found a way when doing a redirection to another URL to actually keep the "original" url entered, for example

http://intranet

it will always give you the "real"

http://server/sites/intranet.

So doing exactly what you want might not be possible, but if it is and you get a solution for it I would appreciate if you could post it here.

Regards,
Thomas