Question

Accessing MOSS 2007 subwebs via subdomains.

SharePoint 2007, MOSS, Subdomain, Subweb, Domain management, SharePoint

I have 26 sharepoints sites that need to be accessed via subdomains i.e. site1.domain.com, site2.domain.com,siteN.domain.com etc.
The obvious way to set these up are as separate Web Apps.

For Administrative purposes I would prefer to set these up as subwebs and was curious if there was any easy way to access a sharepoint subweb (domain.com/site1) as a subdomain(site1.domain.com)

Being able to do this may keep both myself andd my boss happy.

You could setup an IIS site which will accept the requests for the subdomains and do a server side redirect to the correct subweb. I did this for our production website for our marketing guys. I used an ASP script so that I could have a single IIS site handle all 15 subdomains that they wanted setup. My script looked something like this.

<%
 Dim HTTP_HOST
 HTTP_HOST = lcase(request.ServerVariables("HTTP_HOST"))
 IF HTTP_HOST = "site1.domain.com" then 
 	response.redirect "http://domain.com/site1"
 elseif HTTP_HOST = "site2.domain.com" then
 	response.redirect "http://domain.com/site2"
 else
 	response.redirect "http://domain.com/"
 end if
 %>