OK, Here is my situation. I'm running IIS6 on 2K3 Web edition and I
need to do the following setup. I have a site running that uses a lot
of directories, so an example might be someplace.com/IL/Ourtown takes
you to the site for Ourtown, IL. Now if Ourtown registers ourtown.com,
I want to be able to serve requests to that domain and to the
someplace.com/IL/Ourtown address as well. And of course I don't want
to have two copies of the code. Now take this to the extreme and
consider that there are lots of towns on the someplace.com domain and
that many of them are going to want their own domain. What's the best
way to handle this?

Thanks for any ideas,
Nate Baxley
PAQ Interactive, Inc.
http://www.paqinteractive.com

Re: Setup Phantom Domains by Ken

Ken
Thu Jul 27 22:22:48 CDT 2006

Create a new website. Set the Host Header value to be ourtown.com. Set the
Home directory for that website to be the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\IL\Outtown (or
whever you are storing the "ourtown" folder.

That way, you meet your requirements whilst keeping only one copy of the
code.

Cheers
Ken

"Nate Baxley" <nbaxley@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1154056337.643742.313760@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
> OK, Here is my situation. I'm running IIS6 on 2K3 Web edition and I
> need to do the following setup. I have a site running that uses a lot
> of directories, so an example might be someplace.com/IL/Ourtown takes
> you to the site for Ourtown, IL. Now if Ourtown registers ourtown.com,
> I want to be able to serve requests to that domain and to the
> someplace.com/IL/Ourtown address as well. And of course I don't want
> to have two copies of the code. Now take this to the extreme and
> consider that there are lots of towns on the someplace.com domain and
> that many of them are going to want their own domain. What's the best
> way to handle this?
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
> Nate Baxley
> PAQ Interactive, Inc.
> http://www.paqinteractive.com
>



Re: Setup Phantom Domains by Nate

Nate
Fri Jul 28 02:15:26 CDT 2006

Thanks for the quick reply Ken. I'll give this a try. One potential
problem I see is that there are a lot of common elements that are used
across all of these towns. When I have them each in a subdirectory,
it's easy to refer them to the root of the site and then down to where
I need them. In the scenario you propose, that would still work for
Server Side paths (I'm using PHP here, and can just set the appropriate
include path), but do you have any ideas on the server side. I can no
longer reference /css/Universal.css for example. I suppose that I
could just use the full url (http://someplace.com/css/Universal.css)
which would work in both places, but it seems a bit "brute force". Any
takers on another way around this problem?

Thanks again,
Nate Baxley
PAQ Interactive, Inc.
http://www.paqinteractive.com


Ken Schaefer wrote:
> Create a new website. Set the Host Header value to be ourtown.com. Set the
> Home directory for that website to be the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\IL\Outtown (or
> whever you are storing the "ourtown" folder.
>
> That way, you meet your requirements whilst keeping only one copy of the
> code.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> "Nate Baxley" <nbaxley@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1154056337.643742.313760@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
> > OK, Here is my situation. I'm running IIS6 on 2K3 Web edition and I
> > need to do the following setup. I have a site running that uses a lot
> > of directories, so an example might be someplace.com/IL/Ourtown takes
> > you to the site for Ourtown, IL. Now if Ourtown registers ourtown.com,
> > I want to be able to serve requests to that domain and to the
> > someplace.com/IL/Ourtown address as well. And of course I don't want
> > to have two copies of the code. Now take this to the extreme and
> > consider that there are lots of towns on the someplace.com domain and
> > that many of them are going to want their own domain. What's the best
> > way to handle this?
> >
> > Thanks for any ideas,
> > Nate Baxley
> > PAQ Interactive, Inc.
> > http://www.paqinteractive.com
> >


Re: Setup Phantom Domains by Ken

Ken
Fri Jul 28 04:43:19 CDT 2006

Add a virtual directory underneath each new site, and point it to the
physical directory that holds your shared elements

c
+- inetpub
+- wwwroot
+- IL
| +- Ourtown <- www.ourtown.com
+-CSS <- www.ourtown.com/css

Cheers
Ken



"Nate Baxley" <nbaxley@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1154070925.941666.51690@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Thanks for the quick reply Ken. I'll give this a try. One potential
> problem I see is that there are a lot of common elements that are used
> across all of these towns. When I have them each in a subdirectory,
> it's easy to refer them to the root of the site and then down to where
> I need them. In the scenario you propose, that would still work for
> Server Side paths (I'm using PHP here, and can just set the appropriate
> include path), but do you have any ideas on the server side. I can no
> longer reference /css/Universal.css for example. I suppose that I
> could just use the full url (http://someplace.com/css/Universal.css)
> which would work in both places, but it seems a bit "brute force". Any
> takers on another way around this problem?
>
> Thanks again,
> Nate Baxley
> PAQ Interactive, Inc.
> http://www.paqinteractive.com
>
>
> Ken Schaefer wrote:
>> Create a new website. Set the Host Header value to be ourtown.com. Set
>> the
>> Home directory for that website to be the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\IL\Outtown
>> (or
>> whever you are storing the "ourtown" folder.
>>
>> That way, you meet your requirements whilst keeping only one copy of the
>> code.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Ken
>>
>> "Nate Baxley" <nbaxley@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1154056337.643742.313760@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
>> > OK, Here is my situation. I'm running IIS6 on 2K3 Web edition and I
>> > need to do the following setup. I have a site running that uses a lot
>> > of directories, so an example might be someplace.com/IL/Ourtown takes
>> > you to the site for Ourtown, IL. Now if Ourtown registers ourtown.com,
>> > I want to be able to serve requests to that domain and to the
>> > someplace.com/IL/Ourtown address as well. And of course I don't want
>> > to have two copies of the code. Now take this to the extreme and
>> > consider that there are lots of towns on the someplace.com domain and
>> > that many of them are going to want their own domain. What's the best
>> > way to handle this?
>> >
>> > Thanks for any ideas,
>> > Nate Baxley
>> > PAQ Interactive, Inc.
>> > http://www.paqinteractive.com
>> >
>



Re: Setup Phantom Domains by David

David
Fri Jul 28 06:20:27 CDT 2006

I presume your setup looks like this:

C:\websites\IL\ourtown -- contains content for ourtown
C:\websites\css\Universal.css
http://someplace.com points to C:\websites
http://ourtown.com points to C:\websites\IL\ourtown

ourtown web pages originally reference /css/Universal.css because
http://someplace.com/ pointed to C:\websites

But this breaks when accessed from http://ourtown.com since
http://ourtown.com/css/Universal.css does not exist.

You fix this by creating a virtual directory at http://ourtown.com/css that
points to C:\websites\css

--
//David
IIS
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
//

"Nate Baxley" <nbaxley@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1154070925.941666.51690@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Thanks for the quick reply Ken. I'll give this a try. One potential
> problem I see is that there are a lot of common elements that are used
> across all of these towns. When I have them each in a subdirectory,
> it's easy to refer them to the root of the site and then down to where
> I need them. In the scenario you propose, that would still work for
> Server Side paths (I'm using PHP here, and can just set the appropriate
> include path), but do you have any ideas on the server side. I can no
> longer reference /css/Universal.css for example. I suppose that I
> could just use the full url (http://someplace.com/css/Universal.css)
> which would work in both places, but it seems a bit "brute force". Any
> takers on another way around this problem?
>
> Thanks again,
> Nate Baxley
> PAQ Interactive, Inc.
> http://www.paqinteractive.com
>
>
> Ken Schaefer wrote:
>> Create a new website. Set the Host Header value to be ourtown.com. Set
>> the
>> Home directory for that website to be the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\IL\Outtown
>> (or
>> whever you are storing the "ourtown" folder.
>>
>> That way, you meet your requirements whilst keeping only one copy of the
>> code.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Ken
>>
>> "Nate Baxley" <nbaxley@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1154056337.643742.313760@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
>> > OK, Here is my situation. I'm running IIS6 on 2K3 Web edition and I
>> > need to do the following setup. I have a site running that uses a lot
>> > of directories, so an example might be someplace.com/IL/Ourtown takes
>> > you to the site for Ourtown, IL. Now if Ourtown registers ourtown.com,
>> > I want to be able to serve requests to that domain and to the
>> > someplace.com/IL/Ourtown address as well. And of course I don't want
>> > to have two copies of the code. Now take this to the extreme and
>> > consider that there are lots of towns on the someplace.com domain and
>> > that many of them are going to want their own domain. What's the best
>> > way to handle this?
>> >
>> > Thanks for any ideas,
>> > Nate Baxley
>> > PAQ Interactive, Inc.
>> > http://www.paqinteractive.com
>> >
>



Re: Setup Phantom Domains by Nate

Nate
Fri Jul 28 10:16:07 CDT 2006

Excellent! Thank you both for the great advice and the quick
responses. These really helped me out. I had been thinking too much
inside a box. This works perfectly.

Nate Baxley
PAQ Interactive, Inc
http://www.paqinteractive.com