What is the proper way to redirect a subdomain to a folder of the domain in IIS 6

Question

I am wondering what the correct way to redirect m.mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com/mobile in IIS6.

I have two ways to do it, but I don’t know which is right. First, I can create a new website called "mobile" listening on another IP and have it "redirect to another URL". But that will use up another of my limited IP addresses.

Second, I could try to do the same thing with Host Headers. If I do that, it won’t use up another IP, but could it cause other issues? I am much more familiar with Apache than IIS. If I set up two sites on the same IP using Host Headers, will it be that same config as Using two different IPs?

Answer 1

Just create a new web site using the same IP address assigning it the host header

m.mydomain.com 

and redirect it to www.mydomain.com/mobile

I don't see the problem here. Actually, you can have literally hundreds of web sites for the same IP address on the same IIS with different host headers (I have done it on severals servers, all IIS versions).