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POCreating symbolic links for IIS7 web environments
 

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    <p>. .</p> <p>We have a growing need where web resources (files, documents, images, etc.) need to be shared between different web environments.</p> <p>I'm looking into setting up symlinks to support this, but I don't know how to set it up. (Or would it be better to set up virtual directories? Part of my question is, what are current best practices to set this up?)</p> <p>For example purposes, assume:</p> <ul> <li>The environment is running on an IIS7 platform, and MUST be in a Windows environment.</li> <li>The shared files need to be maintained using TFS.</li> <li>The web sites occupy different sites on the same IIS instance and reside on the same physical server.</li> <li>The sites are multple web platforms -- for example, one site is ASP.NET, while another is running classic ASP.</li> <li>All sites are under the same corporate umbrella, which is why resources need to be shared.</li> <li>All sites pull data from the same SQL Server database instance.</li> </ul> <p>How would I set up a symlink to support this? Or, for that matter, are symlinks the best way to go about this?</p> <p>Thanks in advance!</p> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> Addendum to the above example: my classic ASP environment can also include ASP.NET virtual subfolders. For example, I can have my domain www.somedomain.com running in classic ASP, but have a subdirectory (www.somedomain.com/dotnetapp) running as an ASP.NET application. The virtual directory used by the ASP.NET must be able to access the same file resources as the classic ASP environment.</p>
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    1. COI came across [**this link**](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2992112/junctions-or-virtual-directories-for-web-applications), and found it to be helpful.
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