Redirect Sharepoint Root Site

Question

I am in need of simplifying our sharepoint URL by redirecting the root of my sharepoint site, sharepoint.domain.com, to the site collection, sharepoint.domain.com/sites/intranet.  I have been trying to use URL Rewrite to redirect the request with no luck.  Has anyone come up with a solution to this problem?  Thanks in advance.

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Rob

Answer 1

Assuming there is no content (or no site collection) at the root "/", you could move the site collection located at /sites/intranet:

1. Take a site collection backup of /sites/intranet
2. Delete the site collection at /sites/intranet
3. Restore the site collection backup to /

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Jason Warren
Infrastructure Specialist
Habañero Consulting Group
www.habaneros.com/blog

Answer 2

Thanks for the response Jason.  Is there any way of doing this with a URL redirect instead of an entire site collection move?

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Rob

Answer 3

Do you want to hide the fact that users are browsing to sharepoint.domain.com/sites/intranet or is it OK that they know they are going there? If its OK then there are tons of ways to issue a 301 redirect (IIS can do this, there is a redirect publishing page that can do this, javascript can do this)...

If you want to hide the redirect from them, URL Rewrite is the way to go but i believe its unsupported in SP2010.

Moving the site to the correct url is probably easier than URL Rewrite anyway.

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Answer 4

I do not need to hide the fact that they are browsing to sharepoint.domain.com/sites/intranet.  Just an easier way of getting to that url without knowing the full path.  My only fear with using the builtin IIS redirect is that I have seen it propagate down to all subfolders and vdirs.  That can be a pain to re-configure.

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Rob

Answer 5

Not a fan of "Only redirect from this directory, and not subdirectories" setting?

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Answer 6

I have used that exact setting in Exchange 2010 deployments and the redirect continued to propagate to all subdirectories.  Not sure if that was just a bug in Exch2010 or not.  Even the official Exch2010 documentation show me removing the inherited settings from all subdirs http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998359.aspx

If you think that is just an isolated incident on exchange servers (which it may be some backend exchange process replicating that) I am willing to give that a shot on my sharepoint server.

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Rob

Answer 7

You could try "Site Actions" > "Site Settings" > "Welcome Page".  You can set the default landing page here.

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