Virtual Directories

I'm using IIS 6.0. I create a virual directory and then
make a subweb out of that virtual directory. That seems
to work fine. When I publish to this newly created subweb
the virtual directory disappears in the IIS console. How
do I bring this back???

Jim
Tue Aug 12 05:26:33 CDT 2003

This is the procedure that I used.
I create a virtual directory using the IIS console snap-
in. I then create a subweb using the IIS snap-in using
the name of this virtual directory (New - Server
Extensions 2002 web). ex.
http://www.engin.brown.edu/courses. Courses would be
both the virtual directory and subweb. I then publish
using FrontPage 2002 to this subweb. When I bring up the
IIS snap-in the virtual directory is gone but the
functionality of the /courses pages still work. When I
try to re-create the virtual directory I get an alias is
not unique error.

---Jim

>-----Original Message-----
>Hey ~
>
>Are you using FrontPage as the client? I am assuming
you are because I
>don't think VS.Net uses the term publish...
>
>But, this is odd. I am assuming you create a virtual
directory in the IIS
>Manager, then, using FrontPage you create a subweb of
the same name... Help
>me repro this, it is possible that it is a bug we
missed...
>
>Thanks,
>
>--
>~Chris (MSFT)
>IIS Supportability Lead
>
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights
>"Jim" <jims@brown.edu> wrote in message
>news:046a01c3605a$624b48d0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> I'm using IIS 6.0. I create a virual directory and
then
>> make a subweb out of that virtual directory. That
seems
>> to work fine. When I publish to this newly created
subweb
>> the virtual directory disappears in the IIS console.
How
>> do I bring this back???
>
>
>.
>

Tom
Tue Aug 12 07:24:13 CDT 2003

There's no need to create the folder first in the MMC. Just create a new
web with the FrontPage client and the folder will be created in IIS. As for
the phantom existing folder, use MetaEdit to remove the reference from the
Metabase.

--
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http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/centers/iis/

"Jim" <jims@brown.edu> wrote in message
news:0b4701c360bc$33a7d0e0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> This is the procedure that I used.
> I create a virtual directory using the IIS console snap-
> in. I then create a subweb using the IIS snap-in using
> the name of this virtual directory (New - Server
> Extensions 2002 web). ex.
> http://www.engin.brown.edu/courses. Courses would be
> both the virtual directory and subweb. I then publish
> using FrontPage 2002 to this subweb. When I bring up the
> IIS snap-in the virtual directory is gone but the
> functionality of the /courses pages still work. When I
> try to re-create the virtual directory I get an alias is
> not unique error.
>
> ---Jim
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hey ~
> >
> >Are you using FrontPage as the client? I am assuming
> you are because I
> >don't think VS.Net uses the term publish...
> >
> >But, this is odd. I am assuming you create a virtual
> directory in the IIS
> >Manager, then, using FrontPage you create a subweb of
> the same name... Help
> >me repro this, it is possible that it is a bug we
> missed...
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >--
> >~Chris (MSFT)
> >IIS Supportability Lead
> >
> >This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights
> >"Jim" <jims@brown.edu> wrote in message
> >news:046a01c3605a$624b48d0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I'm using IIS 6.0. I create a virual directory and
> then
> >> make a subweb out of that virtual directory. That
> seems
> >> to work fine. When I publish to this newly created
> subweb
> >> the virtual directory disappears in the IIS console.
> How
> >> do I bring this back???
> >
> >
> >.
> >

Jim
Tue Aug 12 12:09:15 CDT 2003

Maybe I'm not explaining myself clearly. My goal is to
create a virtual directory (point to another folder not
off of the root) and have restricted access to several
different users and folder underneath that.
ex. /courses - domain admins, courses/en3 -
engineering\professor1, courses/en4 -
engineering\professor2.
I create a virtual directory pointing to another
volume/directory. I then create a subweb of this virtual
directory and give "domain admin" - administrator
privileges. I then create another subweb courses\en3 and
give "professor1" - author privileges and another subweb
courses\en4 and give "professor2" - author privileges.
I only want professor1 to have access to change/modify
courses\en3 and restrict him for changing/modifying
either courses or the courses\en4 folders.
The setup using MMC works fine until I publish with
FrontPage 2002 and then I can't view the virtual
directories in the IIS snap-in. I just see the root.