Quick question about http re-directs

[Catanonia]

If I wanted to go about redirecting a users web link inside IE how would I go about it.

Some info

All in house web servers

User is part of domain called test.co.uk

They have a website they go to that is http://portal.testgto.co.uk/somecrap


They want to be able to type http://portal on thier local IE and be taken to http://portal.testgto.co.uk/somecrap by default.


Would you do this via DNS on the AD , proxy settings or another method ?

Would DNS and CNAME work for this ?


Thanks for any pointers, googling is not helping me until I can work out the technology to use. So any useful hints to start the research would be most helpful.

Thanks

 

[Catanonia]

I would set up DNS on the domain controller for "portal" to point to an internal IIS server. Create a site in IIS that responds to "portal" and set it to redirect to "http://portal.testgto.co.uk/somecrap".

If you created a CNAME for "portal" and "portal.testgto.co.uk" it wouldn't take you into the subdir. Also, you'd have to make the "portal.testgto.co.uk" server respond to requests to "portal" too.

thanks mate, after some reading it would appear that it would need this 2 stage approach as DNS is just mapping and not HTTP redirection.

Thanks again.

 

[Catanonia]

Do you have access to the webserver? Just set up the redirect within that. If it's an IIS7 webserver it's a 10 second job:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770409(v=ws.10).aspx

It wouldn't take much longer for other webservers like Apache / Tomcat either.

This wouldn't allow the end user to type the alias details into thier browser as they would have to type the original address to hit the server