Changing Service Manager Self-Service Portal URL in SharePoint

Question

I was unsure of whether to put this in the SharePoint forum or here, so please feel free to move as needed.
Just finished a large scale deployment of Service Manager.  The SharePoint farm was setup with 2 servers in the farm and 2 seperate web content servers behind an F5 load balancer.  The self service portal is http://ssp/SMPortal (default installation)
and this URL is set on the F5 to load balance between the web content servers.  When I type in http://ssp.domain.com I want it to go to the portal, but instead takes me to the default SharePoint site.  If I type in http://ssp.domain.com/SMportal
if loads the portal fine.  
My question is there a way to setup SharePoint and/or the WCS servers so that when someone types in the URL http://ssp.domain.com it takes them to the portal?  I am not very familiar with the interworkings of SharePoint so I have not made any changes.
 The portal was installed on port 80 with all default settings.
Thanks for any help
EFD 
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Answer 1

You need to add another endpoint URL to the sharepoint site. Sharepoint decides what content to show you by looking at the host header, so unless the host header you are asking for is bound to a site, sharepoint won't know what site to provide you. 
Consider http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2013/02/27/how-to-properly-change-the-host-header-url-of-a-web-application-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx