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• 06-21-2006, 3:58 PM

  SMBDeveloper Joined on 03-30-2006, 1:36 AM Posts 0

  Default Web Site access to wwwroot folder Reply Contact In IIS, I have the Default Web Site pointing to the directory c:/Inetpub/wwwroot/App1. I want to keep it that way. However, when I type in the machine's IP in a browser from an external computer, there's a list of files and directories in the c:/Inetpub/wwwroot/App1 folder, and I also want access to the directories and files in c:/Inetpub/wwwroot/. How can I accomplish this?

• 06-21-2006, 7:10 PM

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  tomkmvp Joined on 03-20-2003, 10:27 AM Central NJ Posts 6,163	Re: Default Web Site access to wwwroot folder Reply Contact Create an alternate 2nd web site using that as the root or map a virtual directory to it (but that would be kind of funky as you would also be able to navigate down through App1). Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/690/408 http://www.bluesrepublic.org/

• 06-22-2006, 12:18 PM

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  SMBDeveloper Joined on 03-30-2006, 1:36 AM Posts 0	Re: Default Web Site access to wwwroot folder Reply Contact I tried creating a virtual directory to point to folder c:/Inetpub/wwwroot/App2. However, the folder is still not visible when I access the site on the browser. Is there anything else I need to do that I may be missing?

• 06-22-2006, 3:45 PM

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  tomkmvp Joined on 03-20-2003, 10:27 AM Central NJ Posts 6,163

  Re: Default Web Site access to wwwroot folder Reply Contact What you're saying doesn't make sense.  You would create a virtual directory off of your web site root named App2 and point it to C:\inetpub\wwwroot, so http://yourdomain.com/App2/ would actually map to C:\inetpub\wwwroot.  Of course it sounds confusing, but what you're trying to do is confusing.  C:\inetpub\wwwroot is intended to be the root.  There's no "clean easy way" to make files above the web site root available. Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/690/408 http://www.bluesrepublic.org/

• 06-23-2006, 6:43 PM

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  SMBDeveloper Joined on 03-30-2006, 1:36 AM Posts 0	Re: Default Web Site access to wwwroot folder Reply Contact Don't worru about it; I've gotten it taken care of. I found I can now access the other folders in wwwroot, even if it's not listed in the directory listing. Thanks for the help.

• 06-24-2006, 3:14 PM

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  jeff@zina.com Joined on 09-26-2003, 10:43 AM Naples, FL, USA Posts 2,090	Re: Default Web Site access to wwwroot folder Reply Contact Pretty much you are trying to get to files above the root of your web site, which for a myriad of reasons can't or shouldn't be done.  Why not just point the root of the site at wwwroot instead of app1? Jeff Look for Wrox's new book Professional IIS 7 in your local bookstore, or order now at Amazon.com