Sitecore config include file relative paths and transformation

Question

I am trying to do do a URL redirect from a site to other when user requests the following url, using URL redirect I redirect the request to a different port on the same server.

www.mydomain.com/sitecoresite => www.mydomain.com:81/sitecoresite

Now the problem is sitecoresite under 81 port has a datafolder path which is acting a relative to first site. how can I make to work with sitecoresite path.

How can I make this path relative?

 <sc.include file="/_EnvironmentSettings/datafolder.config" />

Second question is how can I use web.config transformations on sitecore section of sitecore sites.

Answer 1

While I agree with jammykam on using patch files for updating Sitecore settings, there are occasions where you might want to transform the patch files for a release build vs a debug build. For example, SMTP settings etc...

For that I use the SlowCheatah plugin for VS - it creates the transforms nicely and then my deployment server does the transforms on deploy. Although I would recommend that you don't create lots of transforms per environment. A simple release transform with variables set via your deployment server would be better.