I have read that the applicationhost.config file sets the defaults and all directories below root inherit those settings. I know its possible to change the defaultdirectory in a web.config, but I...

We have an application using ASP.NET Core 1.0 RC1 and hosted on IIS. It works fine. Now we have static content, that is available on a file share and should be accessible from the application. Bef...

Is there a way to add a Virtual Directory to an Azure Website using Powershell? Background: we have a single solution with an ASP.Net MVC application and a Web.API projects. We are publishing the ...

My web application is typically located in a subdirectory of the root in IIS. Suppose the subdirectory is "app" When I try to debug it in Visual Studio, the path is always rooted at localhost, wit...

When developing a site on VS2010/IIS 7.5, I'm using Web Deploy to publish the site from my machine to the dev site server. The site has about 40 virtual directories, and I'd like to automagically...

I have a website and it sits on the IIS Server and I have a folder on another server the file server. I have set the Virtual directory to the folder on the fileserver. This application both servers...

we are running some of our sites as Web Site projects in Visual Studio. We recently upgraded to VS2015. Now we can't add virtual directories to new websites. We already tried right-click "Add new ...

If you were developed ASP.NET web site in VS2010. (or before VS2015) And your site is using Virtual Path, for example "http://localhost:12345/myvirpath" And you have the customize config file by ...

I have a web project in VS2015 (using IIS Express) and need to add a virtual directory for files that can be downloaded but are created by another process. I have added an entry to my applicationho...

The only place on the entire internet I could find an explanation is on MSDN: Specifies an alternative path for the application root URL. Use this option if the Web application root is not the ...

Say I have the site http://localhost/virtual where virtual is the virtual directory I have an Ajax request that is defined in a javascript file using JQuery $.getJSON("/Controller/Action") W...

I am currently preventing anonymous users access to my root application. /web.config <system.web> <authorization> <deny users="?" /> </authorization> </system.web...

I want to create an application in PHP implementing virtual directory feature. Example: http://mydomain.com/user001 will display the contents of the url http://mydomain.com/index.php?user=user001. ...

I'm using Request.ApplicationPath to learn the name of the Virtual Directory in which I'm running. Is there a more reliable way?

The project I have uses msdeploy to publish a package to IIS. It deploys over an existing version of the project. within the web application, I have a virtual directory, but every time I deploy the...

I have a IIS problem that I think this blog gives me a fix for: To resolve it, Right Click on the virtual directory - select properties and then click on "Create" next to the "Appli...

I'm hosting multiple applications on IIS server virtual directories and I'm using URL Rewrite to facilitate them. All images and other assets that are manually written like this "~/path/to/my/conte...

I recently upgraded my machine which meant I had to install VS 2015 RC community opened a previous project and had to recreate all my previous virtual directories only to find when I try I get the...

IIS5 is running on SERVER1. One of the virtual directories in IIS, myfiles, is pointing to "A shared location on another computer", //SERVER2/myfilesshare When I try to access the page: http://SE...

I've created a virtual directory within our intranet web application in IIS 7.5. The virtual directory currently points to the following location: \\fileserver\root\Departments Whenever I enable...

I have some pages that reference javascript files. The application exists locally in a Virtual Directory, i.e. http://localhost/MyVirtualDirectory/MyPage.aspx so locally I reference the files as ...

Due to various engineering requirements, I need to develop a new ASP.NET Web API application (named as BarApp) within the same Application domain of an existing application (named as FooApp). I wo...

Please someone explain to me by example what is a virtual directory and why do we need it?

I am trying to change the name of a c# WCF logfile based on the name of the IIS Virtual directory it is deployed to. I tried to use the Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() call but it returns the dir...

Within a HttpModule, following a url rewrite, I'm am testing user permissions to a to a virtual path situated within my application using: // Since we are now rewriting the path we need to check a...