I want to host multiple Top Level Domains (TLDs) off of the same web application.
Scenario: www.mywebsite.com has language sub-folders of /en-us/, /en-gb/, /fr-ca/, /ja/, etc... So www.mywebsite.com/en-gb/ would be the UK version of the site.
UK users should go to www.mywebsite.co.uk but be routed to www.mywebsite.com/en-gb/
In IIS, I've set the bindings for this web application to handle both www.mywebsite.com and www.mywebsite.co.uk domains.
The URL Rewrite 2.0 module is added to IIS and includes this rule:
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="CanonicalHostNameRule" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www\.mywebsite\.co\.uk$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="http://www.mywebsite.com/en-gb/{R:1}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
Users who go to www.mywebsite.co.uk have the URL rewritten to www.mywebsite.com/en-gb/, however, I want the URL to remain www.mywebsite.co.uk for them, and in fact, I would want the www.mywebsite.com/en-gb/ to be rewritten to www.mywebsite.co.uk for consistency.
I'm still not even quite sure what the proper terminology is for what I want to do. So far I've run across 'multi-tenancy', 'application request routing', 'URL routing', 'URL rewriting', and a few others.
Here are a few resources I've been reading to try and figure out how best to handle this. Am I on the right track? I haven't found a good example that demonstrates doing this with TLD's.
