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Overview¶

This article explains how to setup multiple sites on a single Sitecore instance. The assumption behind this procedure is that each site is required to have its own domain name.

Procedure¶

1. Setup either DNS entries or your HOSTS File to all point to the IP address of the web server.

Sample HOSTS File

127.0.0.1       AcmeSitecore
127.0.0.1       AcmeSales
127.0.0.1       AcmeTechSupport

2. Within IIS, setup the bindings for your site to include the domain name of each site.

3. Within the <sites> section (i.e., /configuration/sitecore/sites node) of your web.config file, map each site to the desired Sitecore path.

Sample web.config settings'

<sites>
    <site name="ACME Sales" hostName="AcmeSales" virtualFolder="/" physicalFolder="/" rootPath="/sitecore/content/Sales" . . . />
    <site name="ACME Tech Support" hostName="AcmeTechSupport" virtualFolder="/" physicalFolder="/" rootPath="/sitecore/content/TechSupport" . . . />
    <site name="ACME Main Site" hostName="AcmeSitecore" virtualFolder="/" physicalFolder="/" rootPath="/sitecore/content" . . . />
. . .
</sites>

Site Node Attributes¶

The node has the following attributes of interest.

Attribute	Description
name
hostName
virtualFolder
physicalFolder
rootPath
startItem
database
requireLogin
loginPage
domain