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Asked: 2026-05-30T16:59:46+00:00

The Issue We have two sites, one domain, we want to setup a virtual

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The Issue

We have two sites, one domain, we want to setup a virtual directory on the domain which can access the second site.

IIS virtual directory doesn’t seem to do the trick, sitecore does not seem to play nicely.

Is there a potential work around using sitecore?

The Environment

We have the following folder structure for two of our sites:

  • C:\Sitecore\Site1

  • C:\Sitecore\Site2

Site 1 and Site 2 both connect to the same web, core and master databases.

To access the cms for both sites in the browser we do:

From Site 1’s cms we create content, layouts and templates for Site 1 and Site 2.

The Solution

What we did is in the first sites web.config we defined the site as normal:

<site name="site1" hostName="mysite1.com" virtualFolder="/" physicalFolder="/" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/MyItem1/" database="web" domain="extranet" allowDebug="true" cacheHtml="true" htmlCacheSize="10MB" registryCacheSize="0" viewStateCacheSize="0" xslCacheSize="5MB" filteredItemsCacheSize="2MB" enablePreview="true" enableWebEdit="true" enableDebugger="true" disableClientData="false" />

In the second sites web.config we defined the site slightly differently:

<site name="site2" hostName="mysite1.com" virtualFolder="/Site2" physicalFolder="/" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/MyItem2/" database="web" domain="extranet" allowDebug="true" cacheHtml="true" htmlCacheSize="10MB" registryCacheSize="0" viewStateCacheSize="0" xslCacheSize="5MB" filteredItemsCacheSize="2MB" enablePreview="true" enableWebEdit="true" enableDebugger="true" disableClientData="false" />

The second site we defined a virtual folder which you can notice above that was the only difference along with the obvious start item differences.

Site 1 will respond like normal. You can visit mysite1.com it will load the start item relevant for website 1.

When you visist mysite1.com/Site2/ it will load the virtual folder defined in the second site and load its relevant start item.

That is pretty much it works like a charm.

And finally @Mark Ursino thanks for your help.

To Note

You need have sitecore scalability configs enabled for any of the above to work

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  1. Editorial Team

    From what I think I understand, I think you need to make some changes in the config to set the “sub-folder site” as a virtualFolder:

    <site virtualFolder="/subsite" physicalFolder="/subsite" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/MyItem/" database="web" domain="extranet" allowDebug="true" cacheHtml="true" htmlCacheSize="10MB" registryCacheSize="0" viewStateCacheSize="0" xslCacheSize="5MB" filteredItemsCacheSize="2MB" enablePreview="true" enableWebEdit="true" enableDebugger="true" disableClientData="false" />

    Note that virtualFolder="/subsite" and physicalFolder="/subsite" point to the subfolder, but I don’t think you need that physical folder really there.

    Reference used.

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