How do i map http://localhost:8080 to http://mysites in iis7?

Question

Basically i want to be able to type in http://mysites and it show me my localsite rather than typing in http://localhost:8080/?

I intend to do it a few times like ht

Answer 1

Your hosts file would look like:

127.0.0.1 mysites
127.0.0.1 mysites2

This would let you set up bookmarks like http://mysites:8080 and http://mysites2:8081.

The next most difficult would be to set up HttpRedirection with a server on port 80. This would let you type http://mysites, and have it redirect to http://mysites:8080, which you would use from that point on.

To fully get what you want, you would need a reverse proxy set up on port 80. That's too big of a topic to cover here, but there's plenty of information available if you google it.