Simplify Portal URL

Hello.
EP6 SP15. Our EP6 will soon replace our company's home intranet site which runs on MS IIS standard port 80. Currently, when users want access to our corporate intranet site, they can open a browser and type "sooners" and the site's home page displays. "Sooners" is an alias for the hostname of the web server in our DNS.
Is there a way to set up the same type of alias for the portal? Our goal is to keep the same alias and have users be directed to the Portal homepage instead of the current intranet site. A user would type in "sooners" and be directed to http://hostname.domain.com:50000/irj. It would also be great if this alias stayed in the address bar and the normal portal url (http://hostname.domain.com:50000/irj was never seen.
I believe I've seen this type of redirection using a (Apache) reverse proxy, but is this possible using just the portal on an internal-only windows domain or must a reverse proxy be used?
Thanks in advance for the help.

Progress. More configuration changes to the httpd.conf file have paid off. I'm now redirected to the portal login page AND the portal url is hidden. YEA! (this was due to the "ProxyPreserveHost On" line in the code below). One more step and I'm there.
The reverse proxy doesn't seem to be forwarding the /irj. In other words, I can type "sooners" in a web browser and I'm redirected to http://portalhost.domain.com:50000 (displayed as http://sooners in the address bar) which is the JAVA admin page. I can also type in "sooners/irj" and I'm redirected to http://portalhost.domain.com:50000/irj (displayed as http://sooners/irj in the address bar) which is the portal login.
I would like to type in "sooners" and be directed to http://portalhost.domain.com:50000/irj (the portal login page).
Here's the httpd.conf code I'm using:
#Enable reverse-proxying
ProxyVia on
ProxyTimeout 600
#disable forward-proxying
ProxyRequests off
ProxyPreserveHost on
#proxy / both ways
ProxyPass / http://portalhost.domain.com:50000
ProxyPassReverse / http://revproxy.domain.com
#proxy /irj both ways
ProxyPass /irj http://portalhost.domain.com:50000/irj
ProxyPassReverse /irj http://revproxy.domain.com/irj
#proxy /logon both ways
ProxyPass /logon http://portalhost.domain.com/logon
ProxyPassReverse /logon http://revproxy.domain.com/logon
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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