Sitecore picking wrong site context

Question

when I try to load my sitecore website homepage it shows me following error, where i see the default site context being picked is "scheduler" not "Website" which should be the default.

 <sites>
<site name="shell" virtualFolder="/sitecore/shell" physicalFolder="/sitecore/shell" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/home" language="en" database="core" domain="sitecore" loginPage="/sitecore/login" content="master" contentStartItem="/Home" enableWorkflow="true" enableTracking="false" analyticsDefinitions="content" xmlControlPage="/sitecore/shell/default.aspx" browserTitle="Sitecore" htmlCacheSize="10MB" registryCacheSize="15MB" viewStateCacheSize="1MB" xslCacheSize="25MB" disableBrowserCaching="true"/>
<site name="login" virtualFolder="/sitecore/login" physicalFolder="/sitecore/login" enableTracking="false" database="core" domain="sitecore" disableXmlControls="true"/>
<site name="admin" virtualFolder="/sitecore/admin" physicalFolder="/sitecore/admin" enableTracking="false" enableWorkflow="true" domain="sitecore" loginPage="/sitecore/admin/login.aspx"/>
<site name="service" enableTracking="false" virtualFolder="/sitecore/service" physicalFolder="/sitecore/service"/>
<site name="modules_shell" virtualFolder="/sitecore modules/shell" physicalFolder="/sitecore modules/shell" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/home" language="en" database="core" domain="sitecore" content="master" enableTracking="false" enableWorkflow="true"/>
<site name="modules_website" virtualFolder="/sitecore modules/web" physicalFolder="/sitecore modules/web" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/home" language="en" database="web" domain="extranet" allowDebug="true" cacheHtml="true"/>
<site name="website" enableTracking="false" virtualFolder="<my virtualFolder>" physicalFolder="/" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/home" database="web" domain="extranet" allowDebug="true" cacheHtml="true" htmlCacheSize="50MB" registryCacheSize="0" viewStateCacheSize="0" xslCacheSize="25MB" filteredItemsCacheSize="10MB" enablePreview="true" enableWebEdit="true" enableDebugger="true" disableClientData="false" cacheRenderingParameters="true" renderingParametersCacheSize="10MB"/>
<site name="scheduler" enableTracking="false" domain="sitecore"/>
<site name="system" enableTracking="false" domain="sitecore"/>
<site name="publisher" domain="sitecore" enableTracking="false" enableWorkflow="true"/>

Please help me understand why Sitecore is picking Scheduler site context instead of "website".

Answer 1

As Mark mention in his comment, set virtualFolder="" value to virtualFolder="/" The reason for your context site is not resolving to "website" is the virtualFolder setting you have.

When you request http://hostname/ , Sitecore will not match to "website" since your "website" site definition have virtualFolder set to "

If you want to add or adjust site definition, its advice not to adjust the default "website" site definition. Add your own site definition before "website" site definition and do the adjustments to that.

Answer 2

I think you miss the hostname attribute.

Sitecore determines the site context based on the incoming URL and the following two attributes hostName and virtualFolder.

check this - https://sdn.sitecore.net/Articles/Administration/Configuring%20Multiple%20Sites/Configuring%20Sites%20in%20web,-d-,config%20File.aspx

check multi site configuration also How do I configure Sitecore to serve multiple sites?