One domain hosting multiple machines

I am a database developer who does web development (more than I like). Thus,
much of the plumbing of iis is a mystery to me.

Here is what I am trying to do. We have an intranet site hosted on IIS 6
(Windows 2003 I believe): devnet.mysite.com. We have created an application
called MyApp that we can access from devnet.mysite.com/MyApp. There are
other applications (mostly php) that are tied to the root of the site.

Here is what I want to do: most of the applications on devnet.mysite.com
will be hosted on one machine, but MyApp will be hosted on a separate
machine. Can this be done? Further, if someone authenticates using forms
authentication on the root site, I want to use that authentication on MyApp.

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Russel Loski, MCT, MCITP Database, MCSD.Net

Roy
Wed Jun 25 08:35:17 CDT 2008

Hi,

Regarding moving the site to its own machine, yes it can be done.
If i understand correctly you want devnet.mysite.com/myapp to still
display your app but on a different host... what im going to suggest
is a work around:

Copy your site to the new server and create a dns a record called
myapp.mysite.com pointing to the new server.
Then on the old server create a the folder MyApp with a default page
like index.asp/php and in that redirect the page to
myapp.mysite.com...

I know its a bit messy but if you want it on a different server under
its own IIS that would be the way to go...

Regarding authentication im not sure you can pass the credentials. You
might be able to use a cookie of some sort, but the servers cant talk
to each other..