Hello,

MOSS 2007.

Is it possible to create a DNS entry that will take us to one of our
Site collections?

Say we have site collections

http://myserver/sites/a
and
http://myserver/sites/b

I'd like http://b to take me to http://myserver/sites/b

When I look in IIS we only have one sharepoint Web Application. Will
this have to be done with a redirect? I hope not.

Thanks for any help or information.

Re: DNS directly into a Site collection? IIS Host Headers? by Daniel

Daniel
Thu Sep 04 12:35:26 CDT 2008

Hi JC,
check this link;
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/30213632/change-web-site-url-name.aspx

It's an old thread for this question!

Also check this links:

What every SharePoint administrator needs to know about Alternate Access
Mappings (Part 1 of 3)
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/03/06/what-every-sharepoint-administrator-needs-to-know-about-alternate-access-mappings-part-1.aspx

What every SharePoint administrator needs to know about Alternate Access
Mappings (Part 2 of 3)
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/03/19/what-every-sharepoint-administrator-needs-to-know-about-alternate-access-mappings-part-2-of-3.aspx

What every SharePoint administrator needs to know about Alternate Access
Mappings (Part 3 of 3)
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/04/18/what-every-sharepoint-administrator-needs-to-know-about-alternate-access-mappings-part-3-of-3.aspx

Hope this helps,

/Daniel Bugday
http://www.sharepointforum.com/
http://www.sharepointforum.com/en-US/Blog/default.aspx

"jc" <jobs@webdos.com> wrote in message
news:e50ad573-04f2-42a4-a11a-a5a30ae57b01@w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
>
> MOSS 2007.
>
> Is it possible to create a DNS entry that will take us to one of our
> Site collections?
>
> Say we have site collections
>
> http://myserver/sites/a
> and
> http://myserver/sites/b
>
> I'd like http://b to take me to http://myserver/sites/b
>
> When I look in IIS we only have one sharepoint Web Application. Will
> this have to be done with a redirect? I hope not.
>
> Thanks for any help or information.
>
>
>


Re: DNS directly into a Site collection? IIS Host Headers? by Daniel

Daniel
Thu Sep 04 12:35:57 CDT 2008

Hi JC,
check this link;
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/30213632/change-web-site-url-name.aspx

It's an old thread for this question!

Also check this links:

What every SharePoint administrator needs to know about Alternate Access
Mappings (Part 1 of 3)
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/03/06/what-every-sharepoint-administrator-needs-to-know-about-alternate-access-mappings-part-1.aspx

What every SharePoint administrator needs to know about Alternate Access
Mappings (Part 2 of 3)
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/03/19/what-every-sharepoint-administrator-needs-to-know-about-alternate-access-mappings-part-2-of-3.aspx

What every SharePoint administrator needs to know about Alternate Access
Mappings (Part 3 of 3)
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/04/18/what-every-sharepoint-administrator-needs-to-know-about-alternate-access-mappings-part-3-of-3.aspx

Hope this helps,

/Daniel Bugday
http://www.sharepointforum.com/
http://www.sharepointforum.com/en-US/Blog/default.aspx

"jc" <jobs@webdos.com> wrote in message
news:e50ad573-04f2-42a4-a11a-a5a30ae57b01@w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
>
> MOSS 2007.
>
> Is it possible to create a DNS entry that will take us to one of our
> Site collections?
>
> Say we have site collections
>
> http://myserver/sites/a
> and
> http://myserver/sites/b
>
> I'd like http://b to take me to http://myserver/sites/b
>
> When I look in IIS we only have one sharepoint Web Application. Will
> this have to be done with a redirect? I hope not.
>
> Thanks for any help or information.
>
>
>


Re: DNS directly into a Site collection? IIS Host Headers? by jc

jc
Thu Sep 04 13:14:20 CDT 2008

interesting .. thank you.

Before reading this I was (sort of) able to accomplish my goal by
adding a site to IIS with a host header and redirect to the path I
wanted for that DNS.. works, but giving us problems with non-IE
browsers. Namely, Macs running Safari.

I tried the above.. at least what I understood of it. However when I
go to add internal URL, it requires that I pick from the list of
available sites, problem is I want the DNS to direct to subfolder of a
the Default Web Application.

thanks again.

Re: DNS directly into a Site collection? IIS Host Headers? by spconsultant

spconsultant
Fri Sep 05 07:59:38 CDT 2008

DNS really just maps a user friendly name to
an IP address. Thats it. All the rest has to be accomplished
in the solution as described in the articles. THere are
ways to do that as the article decribes, but DNS will
just get you to an IP.

On Sep 4, 2:14=A0pm, jc <j...@webdos.com> wrote:
> interesting .. thank you.
>
> Before reading this I was (sort of) =A0able to accomplish my goal by
> adding a site to IIS with a host header and redirect to the path I
> wanted for that DNS.. works, but giving us problems with non-IE
> browsers. Namely, Macs running Safari.
>
> I tried the above.. at least what I understood of it. However when I
> go to add internal URL, it requires that I pick from the list of
> available sites, problem is I want the DNS to direct to subfolder of a
> the Default Web Application.
>
> thanks again.