IIS: make hostname point to website

Question

I am deploying to my .net project to host.domain.com/Default Web Site/ProjectName.

I would like to make it so that the URL "host.domain.com" points to my application.

I suspect I don't have the bindings set correctly, but I can't figure what I need to do. Right now entering "host.domain.com" takes me to the default IIS screen, and I can only access my project via host.domain.com/ProjectName.

What do the bindings on Default Web Site need to be to make it point to my application?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 23 '13 at 13:52

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A binding won't work here. Bindings don't do redirects to other paths in a url, bindings just take hostnames, IP addresses, SSL certs, etc and direct them to a certain web site on your server. What you need is either

to publish your app to the root of your site (I'm assuming that's not an option)

or

create a rewrite rule to redirect requests. You'll need the URL rewrite extension installed to do this. It's available here.

answered Aug 23 '13 at 13:52

squillman

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Thanks. I created a new web site IIS published my application to the root of this site. That did the trick. – James Harpe Aug 23 '13 at 13:59
Oh good, that was an option! Glad it's working for you. – squillman Aug 23 '13 at 14:02

IIS: make hostname point to website

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