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Hosting websites as an IIS Web site instead of an IIS application

Posted September 2nd, 2009 by drel
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I am using Imis 15.1.1 .  

I am reading the 15.1.1 Production Release Content Management documentation.

I am following the instructions on page 64. It states "If you prefer to host a WCM website at the level of an IIS web site instead of at the level of an IIS application, it is possible to do this by using a process that is very similar to that described in the preceding section. This technique enables you to create an even shorter URL for a WCM website, such as http://www.myorgusa.org/ instead of http://www.myorg.org/usa/"

The above instructions implies that you can have a WCM website at the root of the website, but I don't see how this is possible because the NET folder has to be at the root.

Can anyone confirm that the instructions are wrong by stating that it is possible to have a url like http://www.myorgusa.org point to a WCM website. I believe the url would have to be http://www.myorgusa.org/(somesubdirectory).

 

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Yes it is possible

On September 3rd, 2009 Bruce Wilson says:

I have set up a WCM site for a client at the root of the site.  The instructions you refer to talk about making a copy of the Net folder and pointing the website at that folder.  As a point of reference, Default.aspx and 404.aspx would both live at the root of the website.

There's one glitch in the documentation which may trip you up.  When you give it the location of the Content folder, the example suggests that you need to create an extra level of subdirectory.  When I did it as it shows in the docs, the nav wouldn't point to the same folder as the publish location.  Leaving off the folder above Content fixed it.  I've SMR'd it, so hopefully it will be in a patch soon.

 

-- Bruce

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Definitely possible but a few pitfalls

On September 8th, 2009 jennifer_strawn says:

I have also successfully setup two sites at the root (within the same 15.1 installation), but be aware that there are some downsides which you may have already discovered. If use the image manager to upload graphics, you always have to do that through Surf To Edit because by default if you do it through the iMIS15 interface, it wants to put those graphics in the iMIS15 subdirectory. Then on your site, you just get the X on the graphic because it can't find it. Only if you go through surf to edit does it see the graphic folder relative to the current domain. Also, upgrades are kind of a pain. You have found out that you copy the Net folder when installing to the root, so on upgrades you basically have to manually copy the modified files from your original Net folder to your copies - all of course without overwriting those custom/modified files!

Caveat: most of my 15.1 work was done early on in the RC, so perhaps some of this has been improved.

Good luck!!

Jennifer Strawn
Accounting & Association Software Group

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