SharePoint: How to determine a site's site directory programmatically - sharepoint

Question

Is there a way to get a site's (site collection) site directory, the one which is defined within the web site collection setting of a collaboration or publishing portal?
Of course I could iterate through all the SPWebs of the site collection but I hope there's a easier way to get the directory as the information seems to be already stored somewhere.
Bye,
Flo
UPDATE
Of course I want to get the information programmatically.

Answer 1

The site directory path is stored in the root web property bag
The code below taken from an internal utility class SiteDirectoryUtil shows the logic of how to determine the path
internal static string GetLocalSiteDirectoryLocation(SPWeb rootWeb)
{
if (rootWeb != null)
{
if (rootWeb.AllProperties.ContainsKey("DefaultSiteDirectorySiteId"))
{
string str = rootWeb.AllProperties["DefaultSiteDirectorySiteId"] as string;
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(str))
{
return string.Empty;
}
if (!rootWeb.AllProperties.ContainsKey("DefaultSiteDirectoryWebId"))
{
return string.Empty;
}
string str2 = rootWeb.AllProperties["DefaultSiteDirectoryWebId"] as string;
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(str2))
{
return string.Empty;
}
try
{
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(new Guid(str), rootWeb.Site.Zone))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb(new Guid(str2)))
{
return web.ServerRelativeUrl;
}
}
}
catch (FileNotFoundException)
{
return string.Empty;
}
}
else
{
return string.Empty;
}
}
return string.Empty;
}

Answer 2

Are you referring to the site directory that is under the Site Content and Structure?
If so, you can browse to http://sitename/_layouts/sitemanager.aspx to see site directory (assuming you have sufficient privileges to the site).

Answer 3

For what it's worth, if you have access to the WSS database(s) you can either leverage off existing SPs or create your own. I wanted to return things like 'RequestAccessEmail' and incorporate that into our own site maps (handy to know who the site owner is sometimes). Our SP at it's most basic...
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[my_sitemap](
#PartialUrl nvarchar(260)
)
AS
SELECT ID, FullUrl, Title, RequestAccessEmail
FROM Webs
WHERE FullUrl LIKE #PartialUrl + '%'
ORDER BY FullUrl
GO
Worked very well for me. Hope this helps.