What to put in -v using Aspnet_Compiler

Question

I have an in-place website in .NET running on Windows Server 2012. I would like to try pre-compiling it to speed up the first page response. The site is running on a second virtual website in IIS.

Calling the site on the local machine it runs at http://localhost:88/AppVersion/AppSite/

The documentation for aspnet_compile when in place says the -v key is the one I want. I just can't work out what path to use for the -v option when you are on a virtual site. Have tried putting full path; partial path and just get invalid path errors from aspnet_compile.

What I can't work out is the something: in aspnet_compile -v {something}

Answer 1

-v is the virtual path. Put the path to your application from the hosting root. I think that by your example, you'd put in: -v /AppVersion/Appsite/ I haven't tried it with a site NOT on its own domain.

Here's what I use for a site on its own domain:

%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_compiler -v / -p C:\Projects\branches\demo3\KenticoCMS -fixednames C:\Projects\branches\demo3precomp

Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/dotnet/netframework-2.0/ms229863(v=vs.80)