Resolve virtual directory in DNS

[Empmark]

I have an application running in the default web site as a virtual directory. Instead of typing in

http://sitename/application

I would like to resolve just

http://application

using DNS. I can't figure out how to create an A record to point to a virtual directory instead of the site. And I am not even sure this can be done.

I don't want to point the default web site to the virtual directory because it is being used and the application doesn't work as a site, only a virtual directory.

Thanks in advance for any help or advice!

 

[ChrisHirst]

you can't have dns pointing to a subfolder, and if the application will only run as a virtual directory you probably won't be able to directly run it as an alias.
What should work is to create a new site with hostheader plus a dns alias/hostname, then redirect it to the sub-folder so typing in application.tld will redirect the browser to domain1.tld/application/



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[lgarner]

You can't. DNS resolves names to IP addresses only. Where the documentroot resides is up to the web server, using either different IP addresses or hostnames.

If "sitename" is only used for "application", then the easiest way might be to create an index.html in the documentroot which redirects to the application url.