clarky wrote: virtual folders... you create these in IIS Web Folders... you create these in windows explorer Web Sites... you create these in IIS To keep it simple; you create a web site, many web sites, how are you meant to access them?? host headers i.e technet is the web site name, www.technet.net is the host headers name Virtual folder is the folders under the actual web site, they dont have aliases, they only have one name. example of this go to IIS and take a look at the VF under the default web site. Web folders, go to explorer, properties of a folder, choose web share and then enable it, and either use the default name or create many aliases for that specific folder. lets say your computer name is jack... you need to run this url to access your web folder or http://jack/webfolder you access virtual folders the same way.
clarky wrote: so virtual directory is in IIS then. So when I am talking about a Virtual Folder I am talking about a Web site. To give more than one http://address you assign host headers to the website. for Web folders, these are the ones that you give 1 or more than one alias too if you want to give them http:// addresses. Im I correct now?? A virtual folder is a folder under the actual web site. You have 2 web sites, each containing 2 virtual folders that link to a local or remote folder in explorer. meaning, local on your server or remote on another server. Web sites; your server has one IP address, 2 websites which will be using the same IP address, they need to have host headers configured so IIS can work out which web site is needed to call apone. server name; jack.technet.com web site name; technet web site host header; www.technet.com the ISS server only uses one IP so this website is bound to this address. This website has a virtual folder by the name of... manuals.. so you need to access this folder by doing this... http://www.technet.com/manuals IF that was a webfolder in explorer, or even a virtual folder you would acess the share... manuals, if created like this.http://jack.technet.com/manuals - see the difference. Remember before you go stuffing around with websites and totally confusing the issue make sure you either have a DNS zone with the same dns suffix or even make an entry in your host file with the ip address of the server and the name of the website... I think I'm making things worse, am I explaining it ok?
