Creating a subdomain on LocalHost in IIS7

Steps to create a subdomain (ex: http://mysub.localhost) for development reasons on IIS

• Right click on the IIS and click on “add website”
• Fill all the fields and press ok ( in host name put mysub.localhost)
• under the created website open Authentication
• Edit Anonymous Authentication and check Application pool identity – Ok
• in the notepad open C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
• in the last line add 127.0.0.1 mysub.localhost
• save and close

if you follow the steps above you should be able to open http://mysub.localhost

if you have any other solution please post it in the comments below

happy development