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clearchannel
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Posted: 08 January 2008 at 10:54am \| IP Logged

I have Win2003 server running a mixture of 4 old websites rolled into 1 large website, Thsi website is accessable using 4 domains.

Atm I have used IIS redirection so that the domains load the appropriate content /page.

www.domain1.com >>>> www.maindomain.com/content.aspx?ID=34
www.domain2.com >>>> www.maindomain.com/content.aspx?ID=56

What I would like to do is keep the domain in the browser and pull in the content from the current redirect URL so

www.domain1.com would show the content located at www.maindomain.com/content.aspx?ID=34

IS rewrite the tool for the job???

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Posted: 10 January 2008 at 6:44am \| IP Logged

ISAPI_Rewrite can proxy content to achieve desired result. But what will happen with links on these pages? Do they reflect reqired changes?
Here is a rule example:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?domain1\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.maindomain.com/content.aspx?ID=34 [P]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?domain2\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.maindomain.com/content.aspx?ID=56 [P]

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Posted: 10 January 2008 at 7:01am \| IP Logged

Well all links in the website are relative to the site root and so they should all work fine i.e href="/content.aspx?ID..."

Would I have to change anything in IIS, or just make sure the 1 set of website files has the 4 domains associated with it?

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Posted: 10 January 2008 at 7:32am \| IP Logged

You didn't mentioned anything that you are going to associate these domains with one site in IIS. Then it simplyfies things. Here is new rules for you:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?domain1\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ content.aspx?ID=34
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?domain2\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ content.aspx?ID=56

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Posted: 10 January 2008 at 8:54am \| IP Logged

I use awstats for my websites and this website in particular.

After installing ReWrite I am guessing my stats program will record www.domain2.com/content.aspx?id= instead of www.maindomain.com/content.aspx?id etc ?

Before I buy the product, as I am new to this ISAPI thing Are there any other considerations I need to make or be aware of???

Thanks
Simon

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Posted: 11 January 2008 at 4:54am \| IP Logged

You are correct about logs. I don't see other considerations now. I only suggest you to install and configure everything before purchase.

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