Question

Is there a way to setup subdomains udner Xp Pro IIS for something like test.localhost

Can it be done via IIS or the hosts file? Need to do a tets on a site that uses pathign back to the root so having the site ina virtual directory like localhost/test causes issues.

Answer 1

As you’re probably well aware that out of the box IIS 5.1 only supports one web site. What you can do is use the adsutil.vbs tool to create a second site in IIS 5.1 and configure it to use that.

The following article explains the process:

IIS: Creating Multiple Web Sites within IIS on Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional

There’s even a GUI widget to make life easy:

http://www.firstserved.net/support/downloads

So in a nutshell:

1. Create a second site using one of
   the methods above (set the IP
   address to your machine’s primary IP
   address)
2. Add a host header for
   test.localhost domain to the new
   site
3. Edit the HOSTS and add an entry for
   test.localhost pointing at the IP
   address above