installing umbraco on a subdomain that is a subfolder of the root

Question

I have a similar problem as here Umbraco (4.7) in a subfolder or virtual directory? but not exactly.

I have an umbraco installation running as a subdomain (newmain.mydomain.com). The way we are doing subdomains on my server is to create an application under the main site then let the web.config at the root take care of the url rewriting. This is working fine for all my other subdomains, but umbraco doesn't seem to like it at all. Can someone point me in the right direction in the umbraco web.config (or elsewhere) to help me make this work? Perhaps I need better rewriting on the web.config at the root, but I'm unsure what changes to make.

I'm reluctant to create another root level website for various reasons.

Answer 1

I ended up moving this to a more standard style subdomain. I think it's disappointing that it must be configured this way.