Iis – Map different paths to separate websites

iisiis-8.5

Running on IIS 8.5, I have 4 different sites running asp.net applications, let's say a:80, b:7777, c:8888 and d:9999 (all running on different ports)

Is there a way to have domain.com point to default web site a and the 3 other apps -> domain.com/a (point to a:7777), domain.com/b (point to b:8888) and domain.com/c (point to c:9999) and all 4 have separate app pools?

Thank you

Best Answer

Typically what you're asking for is achieved by using a Reverse Proxy in front of the sites. Some popular dedicated options include HAProxy and NGINX.

It also appears that IIS by itself can potentially do it with the URL Rewrite module. Here's a blog post with more info:

There are times when you need to reverse proxy through a server. The most common example is when you have an internal web server that isn’t exposed to the internet, and you have a public web server accessible to the internet. If you want to serve up traffic from the internal web server, you can do this through the public web server by creating a tunnel (aka reverse proxy).

Essentially, you can front the internal web server with a friendly URL, even hiding custom ports.

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Php – Secure PHP on IIS 8.5

+1 for @ahmelsayed his answer. But you can create multiple FastCGI applications in IIS, with different php.ini files easily with Appcmd. But only one handler/php.ini per application pool, see:

Set up two FastCGI applications:

Appcmd.exe set config /section:system.webServer/fastCGI
/+"[fullPath='c:\php5\php-cgi.exe', arguments='-c c:\php5\php.site1.ini'], 
maxInstances='0', idleTimeout='300', activityTimeout='70', 
requestTimeout='90', instanceMaxRequests='9999', 
protocol='NamedPipe', flushNamedPipe='False']" /commit:apphost

Appcmd.exe set config /section:system.webServer/fastCGI
/+"[fullPath='c:\php5\php-cgi.exe', arguments='-c c:\php5\php.site2.ini', 
maxInstances='0', idleTimeout='300', activityTimeout='70', 
requestTimeout='90', instanceMaxRequests='9999', 
protocol='NamedPipe', flushNamedPipe='False']" /commit:apphost

Each web site then can have its own Handler for .php, pointing to one of the php.ini files:

AppCmd.exe set config "site1.com" /section:system.webServer/handlers 
  "-+[name=`'PHP`',
    path=`'*.php`',
    verb=`'*`',
    modules=`'FastCgiModule`',
    scriptProcessor=`'c:\php5\php-cgi.exe|-c c:\php5\php.site1.ini`',
    resourceType=`'File`',
    allowPathInfo=`'true`',
    requireAccess=`'Script`']"

AppCmd.exe set config "site2.com" /section:system.webServer/handlers 
  "-+[name=`'PHP`',
    path=`'*.php`',
    verb=`'*`',
    modules=`'FastCgiModule`',
    scriptProcessor=`'c:\php5\php-cgi.exe|-c c:\php5\php.site2.ini`',
    resourceType=`'File`',
    allowPathInfo=`'true`',
    requireAccess=`'Script`']"

If you don't like the command line, you can click your way through IIS Manager of course :) BTW, assuming correct configured application pool identities and NTFS file permissions, I believe there is no need for open_basedir.

Edit: Two references: https://www.saotn.org/php-wincache-on-iis/ and https://www.saotn.org/custom-php-version-iis-express-webmatrix3/ to show how to add multiple FastCGI + PHP applications in IIS.

Iis – How to set up second IIS website with different domain name on a single server

If you are doing this on a single IP address, you will need a host header.

If you are using separate IP addresses per site with both IPs assigned to the same server, you should modify the bindings for that site so that each site is bound to a different IP address.

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Php – Secure PHP on IIS 8.5

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