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mk_yo
mk_yo

Reputation: 780

Configuring different hostnames for IIS sub-aplications

I'm having few applications under DefaultWebSite on IIS pointed to the same source code and distinguished by aliases:

localhost/app1
localhost/app2
localhost/app3

Is it possible to configure different hostnames for each app via windows hosts file? For example, to have them like this: 

app1.localhost
app2.localhost
app3.localhost

I needed it to test a single sign-on feature and to be sure that auth cookie isn't shared inside the same domain(localhost)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 217

Answers (1)

Brando Zhang
Brando Zhang

Reputation: 27997

In my opinion, you should modify the hosts file and url rewrite rule to achieve your requirement.

Firstly ,you should go to the hosts file(C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc) and add below settings.

127.0.0.1   app1.localhost
127.0.0.1   app2.localhost
127.0.0.1   app3.localhost

Then you could add below url rewrite rule into the web.config to rewrite appx.localhost to localhost/app1.

            <rule name="cio">
                <match url="(.*)" />
                <conditions>
                    <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(.*).localhost" />
                </conditions>
                <action type="Rewrite" url="http://localhost/{C:1}/{R:0}" />
            </rule>

Upvotes: 1

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