web site deployment issue

Question

Hello everyone,

My development/deployment environment is, IIS + Windows Server 2003/2008 + .Net + VSTS2008 + C#. I have several web sites, each of them has stable and beta version, for example, I have beta version order system and stable version order system, the same as purchase system. I deployed the 4 systems on 4 different physical machines.

My requirement is, I want to have a common URL schema to access the different systems, like,

http://www.mycorp.com/order/beta
http://www.mycorp.com/order/stable
http://www.mycorp.com/purchase/beta
http://www.mycorp.com/purchase/stable

But since the 4 systems are deployed on 4 different physical machines with different machine/DNS name, how could I map the same domain (http://www.mycorp.com) with different suffix to different physical online systems?

thanks in advance, George

Answer 1

Why not use something like:

http://orderbeta.mycorp.com

http://orderstable.mycorp.com

Obviously with better names than that. :-)

Answer 2

you can use a reverse proxy to do this. for MS based system you can use either ISA or apache or squid. Take note that it's a complicated setup if you have not done that before and might take a few days to get things done production level.

If you are flexible you can use dev.mydomain.com etc. as suggested above.