How to access site collection with a different name?

Hello,
I have a web application with an URL like http://testsite. And, it has a site collection
named http://testsite.
Can I have another site collection using the same web application like http://testsite/site and use alternative access mappings to map it to http://companysite?
Is this possible?
Thanks
Paul

Hi Paul,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to map the non-root site collection from
http://testsite to http://companysite .
For your issue, it cannot be achieved by using Alternative Access
Mappings. For achieving your demand, you can create host-named site collection instead of path-based site collection.
For more information, you can refer to the blog:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc424952(v=office.15).aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2013/10/31/guide-to-sharepoint-2013-host-name-site-collections.aspx
Best Regards,
Eric
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