Good evening,

I hope this was the most appropriate forum to post this in but have a small issue with my sites URL Redirections/Resolving of links.

I currently have 2 Hosted Websites; www.a.com and www.b.com (for this example). www.a.com hosts my main website while www.b.com serves to redirect to www.a.com, and host my Forums as www.a.com doesn't have the required equipment/software on their servers.

Currently when www.a.com links to the forums which are hosted on www.b.com it is resolving as www.b.com's TRUE IP address; for example http://127.0.0.1/forum as opposed to www.b.com/forum (I do not wish this to happen as a) it looks unprofessional, and b) a security risk).

But for the life of me I cannot begin to fathom why. The link www.b.com/forum points to an error page saying:

The page cannot be found

The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please try the following:

• Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly.
• If you reached this page by clicking a link, contact the Web site administrator to alert them that the link is incorrectly formatted.
• Click the Back button to try another link.

HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

Technical Information (for support personnel)

• Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 404.
• Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup, Common Administrative Tasks, and About Custom Error Messages.

However the DIRECT IP link resolves the forum. I've checked the .htaccess on the /forum directory and theres nothing in that could be coursing this (I've even deleted everything in the .htaccess to no avail).

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks,
Webbie08

Surely you just need web forwarding on your domains sub-directory? In that case contact your hoster. Thats what i would do anyway!

Here is what I would do..... You have two hosted websites:

Website 1 = 192.168.0.1
Website 2 = 192.168.0.2

Domain Dns Entries:

www.a.com = 192.168.0.1
www.b.com = 192.168.0.1

Website 1 should have host entries to resolve both www.a.com and www.b.com or if you can simply do a url redirect you could have www.b.com completely redirect to www.a.com and you would not need the host entry for www.b.com.

You would then create a new dns entry for the forum and add the host entry "forum.a.com" to website 2's configuration:

forum.a.com = 192.168.0.2

Using this type of example you can have "www.a.com" go to one server and "forum.a.com" go to the other.

Are both servers IIS?

How is the redirection done?
Because if you set the redirect from the sites top level using the IIS MMC then it will redirect ALL files and folders to the same folder/filename at the specified location.