Images from outside wwwroot not displaying (despite mapping) - iis

Question

In my ColdFusion application, I want to keep the images outside of wwwroot in this folder: C:\extSite\stdImages
I created a mapping in wwwroot\WEB-INF\jrun-web.xml like this:
<virtual-mapping>
<resource-path>/extStdImages</resource-path>
<system-path>C:\extSite\stdImages\</system-path>
</virtual-mapping>
To display an image, I do this:
<img src="/extStdImages/abc.jpg">
This works fine on my dev site (which is using ColdFusion's built-in web server), but the image does not display in production (where I am using IIS). I am wondering if I have to tweak something in IIS or elsewhere on the production server to allow access to these files.
Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!
Peter

Answer 1

In iis you would need to create a virtual dir that points to the images folder. Although putting images outside the wwwroot is pointless as they must be web accessible in order for them to display on a web page. The only reason to do this would be.if you were protecting copyright images with passwords and not linking to them directly.

Answer 2

If your on IIS, you may want to look at this for your web.config
http://www.iis.net/configreference/system.applicationhost/sites/site/application/virtualdirectory
here is a sample:
<site name="Contoso" id="2" serverAutoStart="true">
<application path="/">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\Contoso\Content" />
</application>
<application path="/CRM">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\Contoso\Content\CRM" />
<virtualDirectory path="/Images" physicalPath="E:\Images" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:80:www.contoso.com" />
</bindings>
</site>

Answer 3

This is wrong C:\extSite\stdImages\
You have to use slashes not backslashes for CF
This is correct and works C:/extSite/stdImages/