PRoblem: Website Dev Serv to Prod: How do map localhost/ap..

You can create this mapping in C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS with the
assumption that winnt is your windows install directory.

"Rodney Williams" <rwilliams RemoveThis @118WebStreet.com> wrote in message
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 > Newbie question: I'm developing web app on Win XP Pro using VS.NET/IIs5.1.
 > Vittual path is <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://localhost/appname" target="_blank">http://localhost/appname</a> and thus all references to
 > development files must include the app path. However, I dont want to have
to
 > specify <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.domain.com/appname" target="_blank">http://www.domain.com/appname</a> ; I would just like to use the url
 > without reference to appname. The only way I know to accomplish this is
 > issue a Find on "appname/" in all files in site and replace with a empty
 > string.
 >
 > Can someone point me to a better way of doing this?
 >
 > Thanks
 > Rodney Williams
 >
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thanks. Results from my following your advice are below. I think I may
have been asking the wrong question.

RESTATEMENT OF PROBLEM
----------------------
I webmaster 3 websites on a W2k3 Server/ASP.NET.
My developmnet environment is Win2k Pro/IIS5.1/VS.NET.

The problem is WinXPPro/IIS5.1 only allows 1 default website, thus all
websites have to be referenced with http://localhost during development.
It becomes messy (IMHO) to publish a site where the user has to type
extra path information(i.e. www.domain.com/appname/default.aspx as
opposed to www.domain.com/default.aspx (without the default.aspx of
course).

In Dreamweaver, hierchical path names were handled with no fuss: just
publish localhost/appname/dir1/subdir1/html_root to
http://domain.com/html_root

QUESTIONS
---------
1) How do I accomplish this in VS.NET? What configuration do I need to
accomplish this?
2) Outside of Visual Studio, how might I configure my "hosts" file?

WHAT I HAVE ATTEMPTED
----------------------
1) I tried the following "hosts" configuration:
localhost 127.0.0.1
test.domain1.com 192.168.1.1
test.domain2.com 192.168.1.1
WITH THE FOLLOWING host-headers configuration
on my IIS5.1 default web site as:
headername: test.domain1.com
value: test.domain1.com
All unassigned IP port 80
-- and likewise for test.domain2.com
-- Result: I kept gettting the default.aspx file I had placed in my
c:\inetpub\wwwroot.

2) I then added a redirect code to the default.aspx in wwwroot.
Pseudocode:
<pre>
On page load
if server_name = test.domain1.com
response.redirect localhost\domain1-approot
else if server_name = test.domain2.com
respnse.redirect localhost\domain2-approot
</pre>
--Result: recursion

Sorry for the long explain, but I wanna be clear. Does anyone hava a
solution?

Rodney Williams



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Im tring to void MapPath's and other such conventions. See my response
tgo Dave. Dreamweaver maps the paths for you under the hood via Site
Definitions. Perhaps it is my ingnorance of VS.NEt that I haven't been
able to achieve similar functionality for instance. I did find a
tutorial on Deployment Projects in VS.NET but it was specific to Windows
applications and not ASP.NET web apps.

Thanks for your quick response,
Rodney Williams

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"IIS" <row118 RemoveThis @earthlink.net> wrote in message
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 >
 > thanks. Results from my following your advice are below. I think I may
 > have been asking the wrong question.
 >
 > RESTATEMENT OF PROBLEM
 > ----------------------
 > I webmaster 3 websites on a W2k3 Server/ASP.NET.
 > My developmnet environment is Win2k Pro/IIS5.1/VS.NET.
 >
 > The problem is WinXPPro/IIS5.1 only allows 1 default website, thus all
 > websites have to be referenced with <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://localhost" target="_blank">http://localhost</a> during development.
 > It becomes messy (IMHO) to publish a site where the user has to type
 > extra path information(i.e. <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.domain.com/appname/default.aspx" target="_blank">www.domain.com/appname/default.aspx</a> as
 > opposed to <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.domain.com/default.aspx" target="_blank">www.domain.com/default.aspx</a> (without the default.aspx of
 > course).
 >
 > In Dreamweaver, hierchical path names were handled with no fuss: just
 > publish localhost/appname/dir1/subdir1/html_root to
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://domain.com/html_root</font" target="_blank">http://domain.com/html_root</font</a>>
 >
 > QUESTIONS
 > ---------
 > 1) How do I accomplish this in VS.NET? What configuration do I need to
 > accomplish this?
 > 2) Outside of Visual Studio, how might I configure my "hosts" file?
 >
 > WHAT I HAVE ATTEMPTED
 > ----------------------
 > 1) I tried the following "hosts" configuration:
 > localhost 127.0.0.1
 > test.domain1.com 192.168.1.1
 > test.domain2.com 192.168.1.1
 > WITH THE FOLLOWING host-headers configuration
 > on my IIS5.1 default web site as:
 > headername: test.domain1.com
 > value: test.domain1.com
 > All unassigned IP port 80
 > -- and likewise for test.domain2.com
 > -- Result: I kept gettting the default.aspx file I had placed in my
 > c:\inetpub\wwwroot.
 >
 > 2) I then added a redirect code to the default.aspx in wwwroot.
 > Pseudocode:
 > <pre>
 > On page load
 > if server_name = test.domain1.com
 > response.redirect localhost\domain1-approot
 > else if server_name = test.domain2.com
 > respnse.redirect localhost\domain2-approot
 > </pre>
 > --Result: recursion
 >
 > Sorry for the long explain, but I wanna be clear. Does anyone hava a
 > solution?

Your best bet may be to configure different root paths for each site and
only have one of them active in IIS at a time. In other words, change the
root path in IIS each time you need to work on a different web.

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