IISExpress add path to website - iis

Question

I have a website working fine on IIS express until I wanted to add a second one and have them both run off the same port number. Now I can't figure out how to get the path right. When I browse to the site after running iIS express it complains of a error:
Unrecognized configuration path 'MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST/RISWEB'
and IIS Express returns error 500.19
Here is my config. When I set the path to be "/" it works, but when its something else it does not. I would like to browse to http:// c65273/risweb and have my website show up.
<site name="RISWEB" id="1834812154">
<application path="/risweb" applicationPool="ConnectPool">
<virtualDirectory path="/risweb" physicalPath="C:\c2010\risweb\RISWEB" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:80:c65273" />
</bindings>
</site>

Answer 1

I hit a similar problem and was able to resolve it by doing the following:
Remove the configuration section for the site from my applicationhost.config
In Visual Studio go to the Project Properties > Web tab and then click Create Virtual Directory to have VS recreate the configuration section.
It then worked fine, the resulting configuration section will look something like this:
<site name="WebDemos-Site" id="5">
<application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\Users\rvesse\Documents\My Web Sites\WebDemos-Site" />
</application>
<application path="/demos">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\Users\rvesse\Documents\mercurial\dotnetrdf\Samples\WebDemos" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:64132:localhost" />
</bindings>
</site>
Note that VS generates an empty website for the root directory of the site