Hi Debbie,

For folder based sites the first site has to be a root level site so that the url is http://localhost/ or http://somedomain/

not http://somedomain/somefolder/

The files can live anywhere on disk, it doesn't have to be under inetpub\wwwroot, you can point the IIS web site to any folder in basic settings. inetpub\wwwroot just happens to be the default location where the automatically created default web site points to, so if you want to put the files there that is fine. if the files already exist at inetpub\wwwroot\mastersite then just point the default web site to that folder (instead of to inetpub\wwwroot\) and then use the url http://localhost/

note that when you create folder based child sites it does not copy files to a child site folder and the folder does not even really have to exist. The child sites run out of the same files as the master site the urls are done by url rewriting

all the pages in the menu in both master sites and child sites are served by /Default.aspx?pageid=x even though the url you see is like /home.aspx for a root site or /foldername/home.aspx for a child site those are just url mappings, the page id is determined by the home.aspx and in the case of the child sites the siteid is determined by the first folder segment /foldername/ but it doesn't mean files are actually located under /foldername/

See 

• How mojoPortal Works
• IIS Web Setup
• Hosting Multiple Soites in One Installation
• Multiple Sites Based on Folder Name

Hope that helps,

Joe

I don't know what you mean by the redirect, mojoPortal does not redirect. The only default document should be default.aspx, all other should be removed and I would even delete the file index.html

When you define a folder based site you specify the folder in site settings for the child site but the master site has no folder mapping so any requests that don't already have the folder as part of the url are handled by the master site.

What you need to do in IIS is delete the application below default web site at /mastersite (this won't delete the files it will just delete the application from IIS)

Then click directly on the default web site in IIS and then on the right side of the screen click "Basic Settings", then for the physical path browse to inetpub\wwwroot\mastersite (assuming that is the folder where the mojoportal files exist, ie the mojoportal web.config file should be in that folder.

Then you will be able to access the master site at http://localhost/

Hope that helps,

Joe

Hi Debbie,

Glad to hear you're making progress.

Many thanks for the generous coffee donation! Very much appreciated.

If you already had content with images in the sites before moving it to a root site and switching to folder sites, you may need to edit the content in places where you have images to fix the urls. The images still should be there on disk but you may need to browse for them again using the editor image browser since the relative urls for the pages changed it can throw off the relative urls for images that were created previously under the old url structure.

Hope that helps,

Joe