HOWTO: IIS 6 Request Processing Basics, Part 2 - Web Site, Virtual Directory, and Web Application

re: HOWTO: IIS 6 Request Processing Basics, Part 2 - Web Site, Virtual Directory, and Web Application

Mike Volodarsky — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:15:16 GMT

David, nice breakdown.

To add to your vdir discussion, I wrote something on the IIS 7.0 formalization of the site/vdir/app hierarchy here: http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/07/12/Creating-IIS7-sites_2C00_-applications_2C00_-and-virtual-directories.aspx. Definitely a topic that comes up almost all the time.

Good to see you blogging about IIS again ...

Mike

re: HOWTO: IIS 6 Request Processing Basics, Part 2 - Web Site, Virtual Directory, and Web Application

LukeB — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:49:20 GMT

Some questions I have never had resolved are ...

* Is it a requirement that the root of a web site have an application defined? Based on experience it does not appear to be so.

* Are web applications created on sub directories of web sites supported, officially? This is the only input I have seen anywhere on this question: http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03789.html

* Are all of the operations you can do in the IIS MMC "officially supported" operations?

Thanks.

re: HOWTO: IIS 6 Request Processing Basics, Part 2 - Web Site, Virtual Directory, and Web Application

David.Wang — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:33:57 GMT

LukeB - the answers to your questions are in the blog entry as well.

Root of a web site does not need to be a web application because runtime settings can be set/inherited globally. It does need to be a Virtual Directory because you need a virtual-to-physical mapping.

Web Applications are just runtime settings, which can exist at any metabase node, including ones represented by sub directories. IIS6 will create IIsWebDirectory nodes for the subdirectories so that the Web Application is not left "dangling". This is valid, supported behavior.

Operations in the IIS Manager UI are "officially supported".

//David

re: HOWTO: IIS 6 Request Processing Basics, Part 2 - Web Site, Virtual Directory, and Web Application

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re: HOWTO: IIS 6 Request Processing Basics, Part 2 - Web Site, Virtual Directory, and Web Application

Антон Сенников — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:45:27 GMT

Ну, как сказать, понравилось :) Хотя я все равно ничего не понял. :)

re: HOWTO: IIS 6 Request Processing Basics, Part 2 - Web Site, Virtual Directory, and Web Application

Аркадий — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:59:31 GMT

Можно и по этому вопросу, ведь только в споре рождается истина. :)

re: HOWTO: IIS 6 Request Processing Basics, Part 2 - Web Site, Virtual Directory, and Web Application

Семен — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:09:19 GMT

Любопытно. Чувствуется Ваш позитив :)