Questions tagged [virtual-directory]
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Permissions issue with virtual directory to UNC path
I have a virtual directory in my site (test environment). It is a UNC share which is also used as a public FTP.
It is configured to connect as a domain admin account and "Test settings" says everything appears to be working. However when I try to…

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Convert Application back to Virtual Directory in IIS7
This is really simple if IIS6 but I can't seem to figure out how to convert an Application back into a Virtual Directory in IIS7 without having to delete it and recreate it from scratch.

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How to list out Virtual Directories in IIS from the all the websites in PowerShell
I have hit a complete roadblock and cannot figure out how to print out the virtual directories for each website in IIS 8. I keep retrieving Applications and empty null argument errors and just can't find a way around to get the virtual directories…

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IIS 7.5 (Express) applicationhost.config: Can a virtualDirectory's physicalPath be a relative path?
I'm configuring a site in applicationhost.config for IIS 7.5 Express:
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Adding virtual directory in IIS which points to shared path on another machine without AD
I have machines EXTERNAL and INTERNAL (lets call them EXT and INT).
Both machines are not part of AD (no network accounts, only local ones) and both machines have Administrator accounts using different credentials (hence forget about pass-thru).
Now…

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Configuration of virtual directory for off-domain server in IIS 8.5
Setup:
A web server (Windows 2012 R2, IIS 8.5) outside of domain (called MY_WEB_SERVER)
A virtual directory pointing to a NAS server on a domain (called MY_NAS_SERVER)
An application set on virtual directory to give the virtual directory its own…

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How to setup shared folder as virtual directory in IIS 7.5 (cross-domain)
This is my current understanding of how this should be done:
(TL;DR for the actual problem, please see the bold text.)
Create a folder on you storage server, henceforth known as B.
Create a local user account on B, henceforth known as BUser
Share…

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Accessing directories outside of DocumentRoot
I've recently deployed a web application to my Linux Redhat server using Capistrano which creates the following directory structure in the site's document root:
/var/www/html/example.com/releases/*
/var/www/html/example.com/current
In order to load…

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Alias a Virtual Directory or Application as Root on IIS 7
Our current IIS setup as two applications running on different paths at (for example) http://server/sub-a and http://server/sub-b. I want to alias http://server/sub-a as root so that just going to http://server/ will bring up the contents of sub-a.…

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IIS 7.5 FTP Virtual Directory with Shared Configuration
I have an Clustered IIS FTP service using the methods outlined here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974603
When adding a new virtual directory, it is not available in the FTP site unless I failover the Clustered Service to a new instance. The IIS…

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IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003: HTTP 404 error on Virtual directory; system cannot find the file specified (win32 status code 2)
Very strange problem. I am running Windows Server 2003, with IIS 6.0. In one of the websites, there are three virtual directories: A, B, and C. For whatever reason, and, from my understanding, nobody touched the box, A and C are having a major…

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IIS 7.5 AppDomain recycle causing losing session after adding virtual directory to 'Default Web site'
I hope you can help me out here, because i tried to get some answers already in another board (see here) This Question is build on a reply of Scott Forsyth here.
When adding a new virtual directory to the 'default web site' in IIS Manager, all the…

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where is information about virtual directories stored?
Server hosted somewhere on internet just broke down, so guys from IT support decided to install Linux temporarily so we can access file system in order to do backup. We have there some web services installed as virtual directories, and, of course,…

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Password Protect Virtual Directory With .htaccess
I have a site with a virtual directory structure like mysite.com/folder/title which is actually a .htaccess rewrite to mysite.com/f/index.php?p=title. I want to password protect the folder folder with .htaccess, and know how to do that with actual…

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How can I remove extraneous virtual directories from Exch 2016?
I am experimenting with setting up Exchange 2016 in a lab environment. Created a VM for DC and another for Exchange (both Server 2016).
I ran in to some issues with the Exchange install and decided to recreate the Exchange VM (No changes to DC VM).…

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