I need help solving a IIS configuration "puzzle". Here's what I have:
1 Domain: example.com
4 Web folders:
- [root]\Global - single page HTML site
- [root]\Classic1 - classic ASP site
- [root]\Classic2 - .Net 2.0 site
- [root]\Redesign - .Net 4.0 site with geolocation
Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS 7
Background
example.com is a website that has localized sites by country. Meaning example.com/us is for US users, example.com/uk is for European users, example.com/AU for Australian users, etc.
There are a total of 20 different country sites for example.com, where example.com has a single landing page with an index of country links.
Objectives
Redesign is a new site developed that is supposed to take over everything so we can get rid of the other 3 sites. It has localization with geolocation on the landing page that will determine which set of country-specific data to show on the website. Based on the country detected, it will rewrite the URL by appending the country code to the URL, like example.com/au.
However, I am tasked to launch Redesign only a few countries at a time because the data entry people need time to setup each country.
This is what needs to happen for now:
- example.com => [root]\Global
- example.com\uk => [root]\Classic1
- example.com\us => [root]\Classic2
- example.com\au => [root]\Redesign
- example.com\xx => [root]\Classic1
... and so forth.
Problem
First I created a site in IIS that points to [root]\Global.
Then I created a virtual directory for each country and have each points to the appropriate directory.
However, because Redesign has geolocation, it automatically rewrite the URL as: example.com\au => example.com\au\us
Now, if I set Redesign as the global site and then the other classic sites as virtual directory, the geolocation will be in conflict with the virtual directory paths:
- example.com\us =? [root]\Redesign
- example.com\us =? [root]\Classic2
This is where I'm stuck. Anyone has any feedback and suggestions?
