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Re: IIS not retaining virtual root directory...?

tomkmvp — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:33:39 GMT

No.

A virtual directory is a web folder mapped to a physical location that is outside the physical server root path. For example, if you have content at D:\files and your web site root is at C:\inetpub\wwwroot, you could create a virtual directory named "files" and map it to D:\files which would then allow you to browse to http://yourserver/files, even though C:\inetpub\wwwroot\files doesn't actually exist.

When you say a root directory, I think you mean a directory set as an application - thereby making it the root folder of your application scope. IIRC, ASP.NET uses "~" to refer to your application root.

How are you constructing the links that are not behaving as expected?

Re: IIS not retaining virtual root directory...?

ajcool123 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:28:08 GMT

Isn't creating a virtual directory in IIS the same thing as creating a root directory? I am confused as to why this would matter...? What should I be doing differently in IIS because I can navigate just fine through the site in visual studios built in browser.

Re: IIS not retaining virtual root directory...?

jeff@zina.com — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:03:35 GMT

Relative directories resolve from the web site root, so you need:

~/MyWebApp/list/list.aspx

Check www.asp.net (same login as here) for help on getting around this.

Jeff

IIS not retaining virtual root directory...?

ajcool123 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:38:11 GMT

Hi guys,

I setup an application pool and a virtual directory for an asp.net web application that I setup. I am able to navigate fine to "default.aspx" ( http://localhost/MyWebApp/ ) however when I try to click through a link, instead of keeping the "MyWebApp" part ( for example: http://localhost/MyWebApp/List/List.aspx ) "MyWebApp" is removed and it acts like http://localhost is the root directory.

Any thoughts on why it might be doing this? I am using all relative directories in my application ( example ~/list/list.aspx )

Thank you!