Setup website alias in IIS to hide port number - iis

Somebody once told me that it's possible to make some kind of alias for your website in IIS, so that users can just navigate to the (intranet) page, without being troubled with port numbers.
E.g.
intranet.company.net:8081
can be aliased to
application.intranet.company.net
I have no idea where to look to create these aliases in IIS, surprisingly enough searching for "alias iis" on Google / SO doesn't give me meaningful hits. Maybe it is simply not possible, but I really thought it was...
Any ideas?
Thanks a lot in advance.

For IIS7, you can configure a website application.intranet.company.net whose sole purpose is to redirect to the actual url, i.e. intranet.company.net:8081.
You can do this several ways, including web.config. The simplest way is to use the IIS management UI. See here for instructions.

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Go to "Parked Domains" in cPanel and enter the other domains you want to point to the same /home/my_name/public_html/. All domains will be sharing the same content.
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First, Don't Panic. Staying calm can avoid further damage.
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I'm just starting out as a web designer/developer, so I bought the unlimited hosting package with 123-reg. I set up a couple of websites, my main domain being designedbyross.co.uk. I have learnt how to map other domains to a folder within this directory. At the minute, one of my domains, scene63.com is mapped to designedbyross.co.uk/blog63 which is working fine for the home page. However when clicking on another link on scene63.com for example page 2, the URL changes to designedbyross.co.uk/blog63/page2...
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Mirroring is for you to point a domain to an existing site. Hence this means you can mirror on 1 site. ie. both existingsite.com and mirrorsite.com points to the same server space.
If you want to create a development site, you probably are talking about 2 installations.
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So I have a site setup on a server. It has been working for ever. All of a sudden it stops working. I tried going to it even by IP. It just says, "Under Construction..
Under Construction
The site you are trying to view does not currently have a default page. It may be in the process of being upgraded and configured..."
I check to make sure it was pointing at the right virtual dir and that the default page was set in the documents list. The default page does exist in the dir too....
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Double check your bindings are set correctly. Perhaps a new site was created which conflicts with the bindings of your site?
Edit
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