bindingshostnameiisnetwindows-server-2008
I am deploying to my .net project to host.domain.com/Default Web Site/ProjectName.
I would like to make it so that the URL "host.domain.com" points to my application.
I suspect I don't have the bindings set correctly, but I can't figure what I need to do. Right now entering "host.domain.com" takes me to the default IIS screen, and I can only access my project via host.domain.com/ProjectName.
What do the bindings on Default Web Site need to be to make it point to my application?
IIS binds to 0.0.0.0, port 80 by default. Assuming you've assigned the IP addresses to the IIS machine, the web site bound to "All Unassigned" IP addresses, port 80, with no host header specified will answer for all access to IP addresses on the machine that don't otherwise correspond to an IP / host header combination assigned to another site.
By default the "Default Web Site" will fit the bill for what you're looking for, but perhaps you've changed its configuration to be bound to some IP address / host header combination other than "All Unassigned" with no host header specified.
If you have a particular site you want to redirect incoming requests to, just change the settings on the "Home Directory" tab of the "Default Web Site" (or whatever site you set up on "All Unassigned" with no host header) to be a "Redirection to a URL" and specify the URL in the "Redirect to" text-box.
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Best Answer
A binding won't work here. Bindings don't do redirects to other paths in a url, bindings just take hostnames, IP addresses, SSL certs, etc and direct them to a certain web site on your server. What you need is either
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