How to redirect root web site to site collection

Question

I'm having quite a hard time figuring out this problem and I need your help. Here's the scenario:

I have a sharepoint 2010 web application on my port 80. This has 2 site collections, the root, and the /sites/official. My problem is: The root site is empty, but in the future it will be my something (I don't know what yet), but my other site collection is ready to go and I already have an Internet address for it.

What I want to do is configure everything in way that I can type http://contoso.com and get as response my sub-site (yes, its a kind of redirect)...

how can I do it? What and where should I configure it?

Answer 1

add content editor webpart on your root site collection and put this javascript in that webpart

<script type="text/javascript">
window.location = "http://contoso.com/sites/official"
</script>

Answer 2

1. Open IIS manager
2. Right click on your SharePoint website -> Properties
3. Go to tab Home Directory
4. Choose A redirection to a URL
5. fill the URL for redirection. for example: http://contoso.com/sites/official

Notes:

• Make sure to check A Directory below URL entered to avoid redirect loop
• Link to another thread might interest the reader - immediate redirect page in sharepoint

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Answer 3

Add alternate access mapping for the sub-site collection from the central administration.

Central Administration > Application Management > Web Applications > Configure alternate access mappings