Umbraco 4 and domain pointers

I was wondering. I know umbraco 4 supports multiple domain names. Is a domain pointer created by just adding the name to the host headers of the IIS website? If so wouldn't it be possible to have more than one domain name controlled by umbraco and umbraco would handle the display internally? Meaning if I had domain1.com and added domain2.com as a domain pointer, inside umbraco I could have two sites defined? They would both be run by umbraco and as a result we could have two distinct sites without using sub folders? Is this possible? I know at work this is how we do it on our test server. But I am not sure how they set up their domain pointers at discount asp.net.

 

That is true, a domain pointer is a header entry in the IIS website, but I'm not sure if what you are trying to accomplish will work. First off if both the site is under the same folder (in this case the root) then how will the web.config file work to serve both sites which will be basically two different applications? I'm not sure if Umbraco can support this. I suggest that you check there forums to get more details on this. I checked Umbraco myself and only found documentations for subdomains to host multiple sites not full domain names. Although maybe the concept is similar.

 

Umbraco does support multiple host names. So I guess it must handle it internally. Everything is run by its database and it uses url rewriting (folders don't exist really) so it must work its magic somehow. We have two subdomain A records using nettica DNS management pointing to our test server at work and the umbraco website in IIS is using host headers (same folder) and it manages the two seperate domains. Not sure why it wouldn't work for full names but I guess the only way to find out is by trying it