How to create vanity urls for multiple subsites

Question

We have multiple subsites and user wants to use short urls to access those sites. e.g.
blog.domain.net ->www.domain.net/subsite1/subsite11/blog/
wiki.domain.net ->www.domain.net/subsite2/subsite21/subsites211/wiki/
forum.domain.net ->www.domain.net/subsite3/subsite31/forum/
...
There are about 12 such subsites need to use short vanity urls to redirect to the deep locations

How should I do this.  I can do redirect on IIS, but sharepoint subsites all saved in the database.

Answer 1

See whether the below URL gives any idea

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc424952.aspx

Answer 2

This may not be what you are looking for but did you consider just creating an aliases? Meaning, adding a DNS record that blog.domain.net points to domain.net/subsite1...

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Kipp Sorensen http://justgeeking.net/blog

Answer 3

I am thinking of creating new virtual servers in IIS Manager and setting the property as "A redirection to a URL".  But each virtual server uses RAM on the server.  I am wonder if create 12 virtual servers would be a problem.

Answer 4

 

Hi,

 

For your issue, if you think that keeping the URL structure is not important, we can simply create another website in IIS that listens for <http://blog.domain.net>. We then create an index.htm file with the following redirect.

 

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

window.location="

 www.domain.net/subsite1/subsite11/blog/”;

</script>

 

To be sure this is the default page being accessed, we need to move it to the top of the list in the documents tab of the web site.

 

For more information about redirection options in SharePoint, please refer to the following articles:

Redirection options in SharePoint

http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=48

 

Redirection options in SharePoint and IIS using URL variables or SharePoint Redirect pages.

http://www.gilham.org/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=aab85845%2D88d2%2D4091%2D8088%2Da6bbce0a4304&ID=179

 

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Hope it will be helpful for you.

 

Rock Wang

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Rock Wang– MSFT