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    <p>I have been given the task of adding functionality to an existing IIS 6.0 website. To do it, I have built an ASP.NET MVC application. It works fine when deployed as it's own site, but doesn't seem to work when I try to deploy it as a virtual directory on the actual site where it needs to live.</p> <p>The server name is CWEBSERVER, and the IP is 192.168.1.11. From looking at IIS Manager, this is the site structure:</p> <pre><code>(Default Website) (root) - PRODUCTION (vDir) - CONTENT (not a vDir) - DATAFOLDER (vDir, contains MVC app, just added by me, not working) </code></pre> <p>The strange thing is that when I type the following URL's from a browser on the server it works:</p> <pre><code>http://localhost/DATAFOLDER/account.aspx http://127.0.0.1/DATAFOLDER/account.aspx http://192.168.1.11/DATAFOLDER/account.aspx </code></pre> <p>The following URL (which is the one that I NEED to work) doesn't:</p> <pre><code>http://CWEBSERVER/DATAFOLDER/account.aspx </code></pre> <p>The error I am getting is "The resource cannot be found."</p> <p>After looking closer, I realized that requests to <a href="http://CWEBSERVER" rel="noreferrer">http://CWEBSERVER</a> are going to the PRODUCTION vDir, but calls to <a href="http://localhost" rel="noreferrer">http://localhost</a> or <a href="http://192.168.1.11" rel="noreferrer">http://192.168.1.11</a> are going to the root of the website. I guess this is something setup by the original site designer. I am not sure how to change this setup, but I don't think I can change it anyway because there are actually a ton of other directories that would be affected. The other thing I wanted to point out is this: the CONTENT folder is accessible by going to <a href="http://CWEBSERVER/CONTENT" rel="noreferrer">http://CWEBSERVER/CONTENT</a>. This is really weird since I thought that the <a href="http://CWEBSERVER" rel="noreferrer">http://CWEBSERVER</a> pointed me to the root, so I wouldn't think that the "/CONTENT" would actually be able to get to the CONTENT folder.</p> <p>Now my problem is this: how do I get my DATAFOLDER accessible via <a href="http://CWEBSERVER/DATAFOLDER" rel="noreferrer">http://CWEBSERVER/DATAFOLDER</a>? I would think that I should just put the DATAFOLDER vDir <strong>inside</strong> of the PRODUCTION vDir. I tried it, and using the localhost or IP this is still accessible via:</p> <pre><code>http://localhost/PRODUCTION/DATAFOLDER/account.aspx http://127.0.0.1/PRODUCTION/DATAFOLDER/account.aspx http://192.168.1.11/PRODUCTION/DATAFOLDER/account.aspx </code></pre> <p>When I use CWEBSERVER, however, it still fails:</p> <pre><code>http://CWEBSERVER/DATAFOLDER/account.aspx </code></pre> <p>The error is still "The resource cannot be found.". Can anyone shed some light on this? Specifically, I have these questions:</p> <ol> <li>How does <a href="http://localhost" rel="noreferrer">http://localhost</a> go to the root, and <a href="http://CWEBSERVER" rel="noreferrer">http://CWEBSERVER</a> go to the PRODUCTION vDir? Where can I change this setting?</li> <li>Why would "<a href="http://localhost/PRODUCTION/DATAFOLDER/account.aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://localhost/PRODUCTION/DATAFOLDER/account.aspx</a>" work but not "<a href="http://CWEBSERVER/DATAFOLDER/account.aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://CWEBSERVER/DATAFOLDER/account.aspx</a>"?</li> </ol> <p>The accepted answer to this question (whom bounty will be awarded to) will need to be able to make it so I can access <a href="http://CWEBSERVER/DATAFOLDER/account.aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://CWEBSERVER/DATAFOLDER/account.aspx</a>. Thanks!</p>
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