I want to setup Rainbow Portal and they suggest that I place it in a subdirectory named Rainbow off my root. If I don't do that I need to find several config items and make changes. So I'd like to do as they suggest and create a subdir under my domain. But this subdir needs to be an application directory in order for it to contain its own web.config and work with asp.net as a separate application aside from the root directory.
www.mydomain.net/rainbow would be the subdirectory. I guess I'll either do a redirect in the control panel or a small html or asp page in the root to redirect all users to my /rainbow directory to get the portal.
I also believe I have a second option. If I create a sub domain named something like portal.mydomain.net it will be created as an IIS application directory automatically. I could then place a /rainbow directory in there and use that structure. But I would end up with a URL like portal.mydomain.net/rainbow. Not too bad but it is a long. I'd like to keep it clean and use the first method.
Can I ask tech support to make mydomain.net/rainbow an application directory and use my first method, or is it best to use the second method and do everything myself in a sub domain, or is there another method that would be better. Thanks!
www.mydomain.net/rainbow would be the subdirectory. I guess I'll either do a redirect in the control panel or a small html or asp page in the root to redirect all users to my /rainbow directory to get the portal.
I also believe I have a second option. If I create a sub domain named something like portal.mydomain.net it will be created as an IIS application directory automatically. I could then place a /rainbow directory in there and use that structure. But I would end up with a URL like portal.mydomain.net/rainbow. Not too bad but it is a long. I'd like to keep it clean and use the first method.
Can I ask tech support to make mydomain.net/rainbow an application directory and use my first method, or is it best to use the second method and do everything myself in a sub domain, or is there another method that would be better. Thanks!