Alias a Virtual Directory or Application as Root on IIS 7

Question

Our current IIS setup as two applications running on different paths at (for example) http://server/sub-a and http://server/sub-b. I want to alias http://server/sub-a as root so that just going to http://server/ will bring up the contents of sub-a. The problem I face is that when I initially set up a ReverseProxy it negatively affected http://server/sub-b. I know this is a fairly common problem- how have you solved it? 99.9% of my experience is with Apache, so I feel a tad lost in the GUI world of IIS.

Solution

If it's a dedicated server then setup 2 separate sites pointing directly to the sub-a or sub-b folder. Set the specific bindings on each site.

If you need to share them under a single site then here's the solution to host multiple domains under one site

Comments

[kschneider]

It's not that we need different domains from the same server, we actually want one to be the default 'root' page of the server, while not interrupting the use of the second app running on the server. The blog post you linked to does seem to hold the answer- I'll try implementing some of the ideas and let you know. The nice thing is we already have Rewrite 2.0 installed.

[Scott Forsyth]

I don't fully see the big picture of your configuration so forgive me if I'm off, but what you can do is point the root of your site to /sub-a, and create a virtual directory called sub-b that points to the sub-b folder on disk. That will make sub-a primary and root, while sub-b will works by server/sub-b. URL Rewrite is great, but you may not need it in this case.