In IIS 7.5 I have a site called App with one application App and one Virtual Directory Vir.
c:\Website\App
c:\Website\Vir
Let's say my starting page is as follows:
c:\Website\App\Default.asp
Is the correct physical path for the site?
c:\Website
or is it
c:\Website\App
Whatever the path you have defined for virtual directory of the site.
If you have create this page is app(c:\Website\site) or site(c:\Website\App) then it refers to its virtual directory physical path.
If you have created this page in specific virtual directory(c:\Website\Vir) then it refers to its physical path.
Actually you need to understand the difference site vs application vs virtual directory in IIS. you can refer this link
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If I setup a virtual folder under a website, but there is also a real folder with the same name then can I trust that IIS will always use the virtual path rather than the real path?
I am using IIS10 and have a question about virtual directory.
IF
there is a virtual directory called "test", I can visit it by typing "http://localhost/test" in my browser.
However, IF
there is a physical folder also called "test" in the default folder (like "wwwroot"),I can also visit it by the same way.
When they both exist at the same time, entering "http://localhost/test" in my browser,I can only visit the virtual directory.
The question is
What is the difference between them? (I can visit them in the same way)
A virtual directory is nothing but, is just pointing or refers to your folder in your local machine or remote server. If you are create virtual directory under Default Web Site in IIS. Suppose if default web site got crashed due to some internal problem you cannot access your virtual directory.
As you said both physical folder and virtual directory in the same root with same name can do the same action. but the difference is virtual directory can also map the folder where its differ from the parent folder.
I can create a Website in IIS 6 just fine. But can't find out how to browse to it. I created a Website called TestWebSite and I try
http://myservername/TestWebsite
but it does not work.
But if I create a virtual directory under my website called TestVirtual I can browse to it.
Why can't I browse to the Websitename?
On our old IIS6 server, we handled IIS redirects by:
Setting up a virtual directory on the site
Pointing the virtual directory to a physical path on the server
In the VD properties, set it to redirect to a URL
I'm trying to replicate this in IIS7 by doing the following:
Set up a virtual directory on the site
Point the virtual directory to a physical path on the server
In the VD features, double click on HTTP Redirect and add the URL to redirect to.
This works fine if I only have one virtual directory. If I add another, the settings in the second VD overwrite the settings of the first!
Is this a common issue, and has anyone found a workaround? Anything would be appreciated.
When you configure an HTTP Redirect in IIS 7 for a Virtual Directory it creates a web.config file in the physical path. The work around is to point each Virtual Directory to a unique physical path.
I use folder structure like this:
\path\redirects[site_name][virtual_dir_name]
I am working with my friends on a web application hosted with IIS (Internet Information Service). I noticed that there're some so-called virtual folders in the IIS website tree view, and still some shared folders are used in our web application.
The virtual folders are like this:
http://myserver/folder1
The shared folders are like this:
\\myserver\folder2
So, what's the difference between them?
Many thanks.
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And what's the difference between a web application and a virtual folder? I often right click on a virtual folder and turn it into a web application. But I just don't know what this action actually means?! Could anyone show me some material addressing in detail how a web application in IIS is invoked? I hope it could fit in the following chain.
a HTTP text request (GET, PUT, etc) arrives at IIS -> What happens here? -> a HTTP text response leave the IIS
Virtual folders are folders relatively to an URL path. It means that, as http://myserver is the root folder, you can map a physical folder on your disk drive into a folder that is virtually child of myserver wherever http://myserver is mapped to.
Shared folders are relative to the SMB protocol. The difference between HTTP and SMB is that with HTTP you can host a web application (ie. run code and generate HTML output) but with SMB you can only share files statically, ie. you can share executable files but they must be first downloaded and then executed.