Subdomain Question

I'm sure this has been asked before, but I need to figure this out. I purchased the unlimited subdomain add-on & have an SSL cert, but there is no configuration in IIS I can do to setup a subdomain to point to a specific directory. I don't want to do this using the default document as that IS the main .com web application.

Using an example, I have mydomain.com running as the LIVE site. I want to setup stage.mydomain.com as the STAGE site using the directory \root\stage. Can I get access to IIS to do this or how do I accomplish this transparently? When I visit stage.mydomain.com, I want it to STAY stage.mydomain.com\whatever for all the links I visit within the application, not some redirect to a subfolder showing mydomain.com/stage or something. That would break my application paths.

 

Just noticed the post about IIS 7. If I upgrade to that, do I have access to IIS to redirect requests for subdomains to subdirectories without programmically doing it?

 

they recommended using a redirect script to redirect subdomains to folders, but yea, this will leave your URL like:

subdomain.domain.com/folder

If you're on Windows 2k8 IIS7, you can use the URL Rewrite module to make these redirects, and you can configure it to do it without adding the folder name in the URL.