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Feb 8th, 2007

IIS .NET2 virtual directory not working

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I'm trying to create a virtual directory in an asp.net 2 application....and I'm about ready to explode.

My company is hosting several web sites, and I want all of the sites to be able to share a directory of commonly used files, so that I won't have to include all those files with every web site.
This is important to me to save disk space and to make updates as simple as possible.

Each web site has its own application is the IIS (IIS 6.0 on Win2K3) with the following things enabled:
Anonymous acces
Integrated Windows authentication
Local impersonation

Everything's peachy until I create a new virtual directory directly below the application top level.
The virtual directory is automatically configured as an application and shows the contents of the to-be shared folder in IIS alright, but when I run my web site .NET gives me an
"Could not find a part of the path " - Error.

The source folder for the shared virtual directory has read/write acces for the "ASP.NET Machine Account" and "Internet Guest Account".

It seems I've tried everything so any hints/solutions will be greatly appreciated. :cry:

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Re: IIS .NET2 virtual directory not working

just a thought, but is the shared folder dug down about ten levels in a folder with odd characters or something like that?

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Nope.

The folder in which I wanna apply the virtual folder is in level 2 from the web site root.
All folder names are keep "valid"; no spaces, no odd characters (ø etc). Same goes for the to-be virtual folder.

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Ahh I think I see whats wrong, try adding an empty folder with the same name as your virtual folder in all your site roots, its an IIS quirk in that virtual directories dont automatically show as physical directories

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Naaa, that doesn't do it....unfortunately.

But I just (for once) read the stack trace which says:



[DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'D:\Sites\mital_danline_dk\http\dnmt\FCKeditor\_dnm\version.txt'.]

   System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath) +2014176

   System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy) +998

   System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options) +115

   System.IO.StreamReader..ctor(String path, Encoding encoding, Boolean detectEncodingFromByteOrderMarks, Int32 bufferSize) +85

   System.IO.StreamReader..ctor(String path, Encoding encoding) +16

   System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(String path, Encoding encoding) +93

   System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(String path) +99

   login.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in c:\dnm\login.aspx.vb:19   System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +99

   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +47

   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1061

The two bold lines don't "match"....is that right?
The first one is the actual path of the files on the server, the second one is, well, bogus.

(It is the folder 'FCKeditor' I'm trying to add as a virtual directory.)

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It looks like a real wild thing this one, I am curious though, why is the app looking for a txt file while loading the login page? Thinking out loud could it be a Forms Authentication redirect problem? When you say the second one is bogus, do you mean the path bears no realtion to where the file physically appears on the Disk? Another question what location (path string) is the application looking at to get to the text file.

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When the above error occures the app. is about to load the login-page for a CMS I've been writing.
The text file contains a copyright notice and version info.
This is the first request to files in that directory which mean the application can't see it (I guess).

And yes, I mean that "c:\dnm\login.aspx" doesn't exist. Neither the file nor the folder.

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had a similar problem. iis justt refused to work. Try something like Abyss Web Server X1 - it has native ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0 support

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Can't migrate or make significant changes to the server setup.
I have approx. 150 web sites to support - it would be too costly.
There must be someone who has solved a similar problem...

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is login.aspx set as the login page in your web.config ?
also, have you used a location section to set authentication properties for the virtual directory?

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