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From: Julie on 5 Jun 2010 23:50
Hello, I could use a little help in setting up a website with some
non-standard redirects. Seems like IIS (6) supports what I want, but it
isn't working as I'd expect.

I have my website set up as:

www.somesite.com

www.somesite.com/virtualdir1
www.somesite.com/virtualdir2
www.somesite.com/virtualdir3

What I'd like is to redirect

www.somesite.com/ -> www.someothersite.com

but leave

www.somesite.com/virtualdir1
www.somesite.com/virtualdir2
www.somesite.com/virtualdir3

intact (not to redirect).

I set the redirect home directory property for the parent, but it then
applies to the virtual directories and everything is redirected. Is
there another way through configuration that I'm missing?

In the meantime I've resolved it by putting a redirect.asp and setting
that as the default page in the www.somesite.com home directory.

Thanks for any help!

Jules
From: Ken Schaefer on 9 Jun 2010 10:55
IIS settings are hierarchical. So settings defined at a higher level will
apply to lower levels (your VDirs) unless you override that setting at the
lower level.

Configure the redirect at the root, and then for each vDir configure the
redirect setting to get content from the defined location.

Cheers
Ken

http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken

"Julie" <jules(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:gWEOn.92873$_84.81482(a)newsfe18.iad...
> Hello, I could use a little help in setting up a website with some
> non-standard redirects. Seems like IIS (6) supports what I want, but it
> isn't working as I'd expect.
>
> I have my website set up as:
>
> www.somesite.com
>
> www.somesite.com/virtualdir1
> www.somesite.com/virtualdir2
> www.somesite.com/virtualdir3
>
> What I'd like is to redirect
>
> www.somesite.com/ -> www.someothersite.com
>
> but leave
>
> www.somesite.com/virtualdir1
> www.somesite.com/virtualdir2
> www.somesite.com/virtualdir3
>
> intact (not to redirect).
>
> I set the redirect home directory property for the parent, but it then
> applies to the virtual directories and everything is redirected. Is there
> another way through configuration that I'm missing?
>
> In the meantime I've resolved it by putting a redirect.asp and setting
> that as the default page in the www.somesite.com home directory.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Jules

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