IIS Application Pool creating folder with applicationhost.config in it

Asked Jul 23 '18 at 08:50

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This one has me baffled. Everytime we create an application pool on a newly built server it and run it, it creates a folder in the root of IIS. Such as all our default IIS folders are configured at parent to be D:\IIS and each time a pool starts, it creates D:\IIS\POOLNAME. This folder contains the same permissions structure as the INETSRV folder and contains an applicationhost.config named as the application pool.

Some sort of wacky debugging? Anyone seen this before?

asked Jul 23 '18 at 08:50

Richard Dakin

IIS itself does create a cached config file for each running pools, under %systemdrive%\inetpub\temp\appPools\ If you moved the default folders, then such files would be at another location. Super natural. – Lex Li Jul 23 '18 at 16:50
ok, but where is this config set? – Richard Dakin Jul 24 '18 at 05:20
Leave it alone. You are not supposed to touch it. – Lex Li Jul 24 '18 at 12:00

IIS Application Pool creating folder with applicationhost.config in it

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