How to alias a site off of a portal top level site?

Hi. I have a SharePoint 2007 intranet portal top level site which is
accessible at http://servername.domain.org. There is a site below the root
like http://servername.domain.org/app. How can I set up an alias to access
that site directly? For example, I want to use "myapp" or "myapp.domain.org"
to alias http://servername.domain.org/app. Can it be done with host headers,
alternate access mapping (a SharePoint 2007 feature), DNS alias, or
combination of all?
Thanks!

(Cross-posted in the SharePoint newsgroup also.)

Re: How to alias a site off of a portal top level site?

On Nov 9, 3:55 pm, Coop wrote:
> Hi. I have a SharePoint 2007 intranet portal top level site which is
> accessible athttp://servername.domain.org. There is a site below the root
> like http://servername.domain.org/app. How can I set up an alias to access
> that site directly? For example, I want to use "myapp" or "myapp.domain.org"
> to aliashttp://servername.domain.org/app. Can it be done with host headers,
> alternate access mapping (a SharePoint 2007 feature), DNS alias, or
> combination of all?
> Thanks!
>
> (Cross-posted in the SharePoint newsgroup also.)

You can always do this sort of alias by creating a new IIS Website,
setting its Host header binding to myapp.domain.org, and set its
Virtual Directory to that of the Sharepoint Portal site.

However, it all depends on whether Sharepoint site supports running as
the "root" of a website.

There are other approaches that basically rewrite HTTP packets that
change servername.domain.org/app to app.domain.org, but they can be
complicated, non-performant, and may not be supported by the
application itself.

Bottom line -- it requires application support to be able to rename
it. IIS will support the rename assuming the application supports it.


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