Subweb in ASP.Net?

[Selden]

I'm not realy sure if this is called a "subweb" or not, but here's what I
want to do:

I have a website, smccabe.net

The pages on this site are accessed by the form
http://smccabe.net/somepage.aspx

What I would like to do is create a page accessed with the form:

http://somepage.smccabe.net

How do you do this with ASP.Net?

Thanks!
---Selden

 

[clintonG]

Yes, that form of addressing is called a subweb and requires the use of host
headers. Its an IIS configuration.

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[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Selden,
Actually, it's not really a subweb. A "subweb" would be
http://smccabe.net/somepage/ in IIS terminology. Usually when IIS refers to
a subweb it is referring to a logical entity packed as a FrontPage subweb,
which is basically a directory that has been compartmentalized for use by
the FrontPage Server Extensions and FrontPage publishing.

What you are referring to is a subdomain. You would first have to setup
the DNS settings in order to handle the subdomain so it points somewhere.
It's possible that you could have the server automatically point the entry
so that it exists within your site, but at a directory different from the
root. In orther words http://somepage.smccabe.net would map to
http://smccabe.net/somepage/ In some scenarious this becomes unstable
because you would have subdirectories of your root web being seen by the
application possibly as the root level of the site.

Basically, this is a server setup that you wouldn't do in ASP.Net.
Has to be configured through DNS and IIS itself.

 

[Selden]

Thanks, you've cleared it up perfectly!

Selden,
Actually, it's not really a subweb. A "subweb" would be
http://smccabe.net/somepage/ in IIS terminology. Usually when IIS refers
to a subweb it is referring to a logical entity packed as a FrontPage
subweb, which is basically a directory that has been compartmentalized for
use by the FrontPage Server Extensions and FrontPage publishing.

What you are referring to is a subdomain. You would first have to setup
the DNS settings in order to handle the subdomain so it points somewhere.
It's possible that you could have the server automatically point the entry
so that it exists within your site, but at a directory different from the
root. In orther words http://somepage.smccabe.net would map to
http://smccabe.net/somepage/ In some scenarious this becomes unstable
because you would have subdirectories of your root web being seen by the
application possibly as the root level of the site.

Basically, this is a server setup that you wouldn't do in ASP.Net.
Has to be configured through DNS and IIS itself.