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Is anyone familiar with this error? I have this running just fine on my
local machine but when I pushed it out to our development server I get this
error. I have no idea what it is saying. Any clues?

-Brett-

Server Error in '/' Application.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----

Configuration Error
Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file
required to service this request. Please review the specific error details
below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: It is an error to use a section registered as
allowDefinition ='MachineToAppl ication' beyond application level. This error
can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application
in IIS.

Source Error:
Line 59: by Microsoft that offers a single logon and core profile
services for member sites.
Line 60: -->
Line 61: <authenticati on mode="Forms">
Line 62: <forms
Line 63: name="MIB.Ident ity"
Source File: C:\Webs\CorpWeb \products\image bridge\myimageb ridge\web.confi g
Line: 61

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.432 2.573; ASP.NET
Version:1.1.432 2.573
Nov 18 '05 #1
12 1620
This line indicates one possible reason:
"This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an
application in IIS."

Web.config sections can be specified to only be allowed to be modified at
the application level, i.e. modified in the root folder of your web
applications boundaries on the server. The authentication section looks like
it is one of them. At the moment, the folder which contains the web.config
where you have configured this section is not the root folder of the web
application.

There's at least two explanations for this:
1) you have tried to configure this stuff in a subfolder of your web
applications root folder
2) the virtual directory containing your app has not been configured as an
IIS web application within IIS.

So, on your server, you need to go into IIS, then to the properties for this
folder, and make sure it has an application created on it. Or, configure
this section in the web.config which exists in the root folder of your app.

HTH,
Cheers,
Pete Beech

"Brett Robichaud" <br************ @nospam.yahoo.c om> wrote in message
news:Oi******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...
Is anyone familiar with this error? I have this running just fine on my
local machine but when I pushed it out to our development server I get this error. I have no idea what it is saying. Any clues?

-Brett-

Server Error in '/' Application.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ----

Configuration Error
Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details
below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: It is an error to use a section registered as
allowDefinition ='MachineToAppl ication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS.

Source Error:
Line 59: by Microsoft that offers a single logon and core profile
services for member sites.
Line 60: -->
Line 61: <authenticati on mode="Forms">
Line 62: <forms
Line 63: name="MIB.Ident ity"
Source File: C:\Webs\CorpWeb \products\image bridge\myimageb ridge\web.confi g
Line: 61

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ----

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.432 2.573; ASP.NET Version:1.1.432 2.573

Nov 18 '05 #2
Yes I do have this ASP App down in a subdir of the main web.

I actually already tried creating a virtual directory for my app after
seeing this error but it made no difference. I also tried copying the
web.config down to the root and it made no difference.

I'm curious why it is acting differently on this server than it is locally
on my machine? Is there some machine based policy that enforces this?

Optimally I would like to have my web.config in the subfolder. Is there a
way I can do this? I have full control of the server.

-Brett-
"Pete Beech" <pe*********@ho tmail.nojunk.co m> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP11.phx.gbl. ..
This line indicates one possible reason:
"This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS."

Web.config sections can be specified to only be allowed to be modified at
the application level, i.e. modified in the root folder of your web
applications boundaries on the server. The authentication section looks like it is one of them. At the moment, the folder which contains the web.config
where you have configured this section is not the root folder of the web
application.

There's at least two explanations for this:
1) you have tried to configure this stuff in a subfolder of your web
applications root folder
2) the virtual directory containing your app has not been configured as an
IIS web application within IIS.

So, on your server, you need to go into IIS, then to the properties for this folder, and make sure it has an application created on it. Or, configure
this section in the web.config which exists in the root folder of your app.
HTH,
Cheers,
Pete Beech

"Brett Robichaud" <br************ @nospam.yahoo.c om> wrote in message
news:Oi******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...
Is anyone familiar with this error? I have this running just fine on my
local machine but when I pushed it out to our development server I get

this
error. I have no idea what it is saying. Any clues?

-Brett-

Server Error in '/' Application.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
----

Configuration Error
Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration

file
required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: It is an error to use a section registered as
allowDefinition ='MachineToAppl ication' beyond application level. This

error
can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an

application
in IIS.

Source Error:
Line 59: by Microsoft that offers a single logon and core profile
services for member sites.
Line 60: -->
Line 61: <authenticati on mode="Forms">
Line 62: <forms
Line 63: name="MIB.Ident ity"
Source File: C:\Webs\CorpWeb \products\image bridge\myimageb ridge\web.confi g Line: 61


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
----

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.432 2.573;

ASP.NET
Version:1.1.432 2.573


Nov 18 '05 #3
Have you also created an application in that virtual directory? If you open
up the properties on the folder, in the application settings section of the
virtual directory tab, do you see a button saying Create, or one saying
Remove? If its Remove, you have an application there. (You can also tell by
the icon on the folder - its a kind of box with a globe in it if an
application has been created on the virtual directory.) .. apologies if I'm
telling you stuff you already know.

Mind you, if the app boundary is the main web, and the web.config still
wouldn't work at that level, I'm not sure if it has anything to do with what
I've said... Is your bin folder under the subdir of where the ASP.NET app
is, or directly under the main webs root folder?

Pete

"Brett Robichaud" <br************ @nospam.yahoo.c om> wrote in message
news:eR******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl...
Yes I do have this ASP App down in a subdir of the main web.

I actually already tried creating a virtual directory for my app after
seeing this error but it made no difference. I also tried copying the
web.config down to the root and it made no difference.

I'm curious why it is acting differently on this server than it is locally
on my machine? Is there some machine based policy that enforces this?

Optimally I would like to have my web.config in the subfolder. Is there a
way I can do this? I have full control of the server.

-Brett-
"Pete Beech" <pe*********@ho tmail.nojunk.co m> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP11.phx.gbl. ..
This line indicates one possible reason:
"This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as

an
application in IIS."

Web.config sections can be specified to only be allowed to be modified at
the application level, i.e. modified in the root folder of your web
applications boundaries on the server. The authentication section looks

like
it is one of them. At the moment, the folder which contains the web.config where you have configured this section is not the root folder of the web
application.

There's at least two explanations for this:
1) you have tried to configure this stuff in a subfolder of your web
applications root folder
2) the virtual directory containing your app has not been configured as an IIS web application within IIS.

So, on your server, you need to go into IIS, then to the properties for

this
folder, and make sure it has an application created on it. Or, configure
this section in the web.config which exists in the root folder of your

app.

HTH,
Cheers,
Pete Beech

"Brett Robichaud" <br************ @nospam.yahoo.c om> wrote in message
news:Oi******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...
Is anyone familiar with this error? I have this running just fine on my local machine but when I pushed it out to our development server I get

this
error. I have no idea what it is saying. Any clues?

-Brett-

Server Error in '/' Application.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
----

Configuration Error
Description: An error occurred during the processing of a
configuration file
required to service this request. Please review the specific error

details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: It is an error to use a section registered as
allowDefinition ='MachineToAppl ication' beyond application level. This

error
can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an

application
in IIS.

Source Error:
Line 59: by Microsoft that offers a single logon and core profile
services for member sites.
Line 60: -->
Line 61: <authenticati on mode="Forms">
Line 62: <forms
Line 63: name="MIB.Ident ity"
Source File: C:\Webs\CorpWeb \products\image bridge\myimageb ridge\web.confi g Line: 61


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
----

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.432 2.573;

ASP.NET
Version:1.1.432 2.573



Nov 18 '05 #4
My virtual directory does indeed have an application setup. The bin folder
is in the subfolder along with my application.

After reading a little about this error I am more confused. Some people
think it isn't possible to enable forms authentication in a subfolder of the
root, others say you can.

I can't make it work. Seems crazy not to allow me to create a separate app
in a subfolder and secure it. I must be missing something obvious here...

-Brett-
"Pete Beech" <pe*********@ho tmail.nojunk.co m> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP09.phx.gbl. ..
Have you also created an application in that virtual directory? If you open up the properties on the folder, in the application settings section of the virtual directory tab, do you see a button saying Create, or one saying
Remove? If its Remove, you have an application there. (You can also tell by the icon on the folder - its a kind of box with a globe in it if an
application has been created on the virtual directory.) .. apologies if I'm telling you stuff you already know.

Mind you, if the app boundary is the main web, and the web.config still
wouldn't work at that level, I'm not sure if it has anything to do with what I've said... Is your bin folder under the subdir of where the ASP.NET app
is, or directly under the main webs root folder?

Pete

"Brett Robichaud" <br************ @nospam.yahoo.c om> wrote in message
news:eR******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl...
Yes I do have this ASP App down in a subdir of the main web.

I actually already tried creating a virtual directory for my app after
seeing this error but it made no difference. I also tried copying the
web.config down to the root and it made no difference.

I'm curious why it is acting differently on this server than it is locally
on my machine? Is there some machine based policy that enforces this?

Optimally I would like to have my web.config in the subfolder. Is there a way I can do this? I have full control of the server.

-Brett-
"Pete Beech" <pe*********@ho tmail.nojunk.co m> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP11.phx.gbl. ..
This line indicates one possible reason:
"This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as
an
application in IIS."

Web.config sections can be specified to only be allowed to be modified at the application level, i.e. modified in the root folder of your web
applications boundaries on the server. The authentication section
looks like
it is one of them. At the moment, the folder which contains the web.config where you have configured this section is not the root folder of the
web application.

There's at least two explanations for this:
1) you have tried to configure this stuff in a subfolder of your web
applications root folder
2) the virtual directory containing your app has not been configured as
an IIS web application within IIS.

So, on your server, you need to go into IIS, then to the properties
for this
folder, and make sure it has an application created on it. Or,
configure this section in the web.config which exists in the root folder of your

app.

HTH,
Cheers,
Pete Beech

"Brett Robichaud" <br************ @nospam.yahoo.c om> wrote in message
news:Oi******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...
> Is anyone familiar with this error? I have this running just fine on my > local machine but when I pushed it out to our development server I
get this
> error. I have no idea what it is saying. Any clues?
>
> -Brett-
>
> Server Error in '/' Application.


-------------------------------------------------------------------------- --
> ----
>
> Configuration Error
> Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file
> required to service this request. Please review the specific error

details
> below and modify your configuration file appropriately.
>
> Parser Error Message: It is an error to use a section registered as
> allowDefinition ='MachineToAppl ication' beyond application level. This error
> can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an
application
> in IIS.
>
> Source Error:
>
>
> Line 59: by Microsoft that offers a single logon and core profile
> services for member sites.
> Line 60: -->
> Line 61: <authenticati on mode="Forms">
> Line 62: <forms
> Line 63: name="MIB.Ident ity"
>
>
> Source File:

C:\Webs\CorpWeb \products\image bridge\myimageb ridge\web.confi g
> Line: 61
>
>
>


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> ----
>
> Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.432 2.573;
ASP.NET
> Version:1.1.432 2.573
>
>



Nov 18 '05 #5
Well, thats very strange. Normally this works fine - what OS is on the
server? - I've only ever done it on a Windows 2000 box. Anyway, ASP.NET
certainly thinks that the web.config is in a subdir of the application, for
some reason, even though you're saying it is in the application's root
directory and that there is an application defined there. Maybe you could
try removing and recreating the application through IIS?

From the documentation about the <authentication > element, it states
"Configures ASP.NET authentication support. This element can be declared
only at the machine, site, or application level. Any attempt to declare it
in a configuration file at the subdirectory or page level will result in a
parser error message."

This doesn't apply to the <authorizatio n> element, which can be defined at
any subfolder in the application's boundaries.

Pete

"Brett Robichaud" <br************ @nospam.yahoo.c om> wrote in message
news:u8******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl...
My virtual directory does indeed have an application setup. The bin folder
is in the subfolder along with my application.

After reading a little about this error I am more confused. Some people
think it isn't possible to enable forms authentication in a subfolder of the root, others say you can.

I can't make it work. Seems crazy not to allow me to create a separate app in a subfolder and secure it. I must be missing something obvious here...

-Brett-
"Pete Beech" <pe*********@ho tmail.nojunk.co m> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP09.phx.gbl. ..
Have you also created an application in that virtual directory? If you

open
up the properties on the folder, in the application settings section of

the
virtual directory tab, do you see a button saying Create, or one saying
Remove? If its Remove, you have an application there. (You can also tell

by
the icon on the folder - its a kind of box with a globe in it if an
application has been created on the virtual directory.) .. apologies if

I'm
telling you stuff you already know.

Mind you, if the app boundary is the main web, and the web.config still
wouldn't work at that level, I'm not sure if it has anything to do with

what
I've said... Is your bin folder under the subdir of where the ASP.NET app is, or directly under the main webs root folder?

Pete

Nov 18 '05 #6
Hi Pete,

Since you've mentioned that the web application run well on the dev machine
but failed on the deployment server. I think the problem mainly due to the
deployment server's IIS site's virtual folder hierarchy. I've mentioned the
error info contains the folder struture of your develpment site as below:
C:\Webs\CorpWeb \products\image bridge\myimageb ridge\web.confi g

It's so deep that I suspect whether there is any virutal folder(at the
upper-level of your appliation) which has host a asp.net web application.
If so, your application will be consided as a sub folder of the upper level
asp.net web application. Also, you can try creating a new virutual folder
under the site's root folder and deployment the web application in that
virutal directory to see whether the problem remains.

In addition, would you provide me more detailed of your deployment site's
IIS folder info?
Just those vds within
"C:\Webs\CorpWe b\products\imag ebridge\myimage bridge\web.conf ig"
which are the upper-level of your web application and how are their
Directory setting in the IIS. Then, I can try generating some tests on my
side regarding on the issue. Thanks.
Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

Get Secure! www.microsoft.com/security
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rights.)

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Nov 18 '05 #7
Try something like this in your web.config file - in my case, I use it to
disable the authentication requirement for a subfolder. (Also, make sure
that your subfolder is NOT configured as an application.)

<location path="Promotion s">
<system.web>
<authorizatio n>
<allow users="*"/>
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>

(I have this just after the <appsettings> section in my case...)

"Brett Robichaud" <br************ @nospam.yahoo.c om> wrote in message
news:u8******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl...
My virtual directory does indeed have an application setup. The bin folder
is in the subfolder along with my application.

After reading a little about this error I am more confused. Some people
think it isn't possible to enable forms authentication in a subfolder of the root, others say you can.

I can't make it work. Seems crazy not to allow me to create a separate app in a subfolder and secure it. I must be missing something obvious here...

-Brett-
"Pete Beech" <pe*********@ho tmail.nojunk.co m> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP09.phx.gbl. ..
Have you also created an application in that virtual directory? If you open
up the properties on the folder, in the application settings section of

the
virtual directory tab, do you see a button saying Create, or one saying
Remove? If its Remove, you have an application there. (You can also tell

by
the icon on the folder - its a kind of box with a globe in it if an
application has been created on the virtual directory.) .. apologies if

I'm
telling you stuff you already know.

Mind you, if the app boundary is the main web, and the web.config still
wouldn't work at that level, I'm not sure if it has anything to do with

what
I've said... Is your bin folder under the subdir of where the ASP.NET app
is, or directly under the main webs root folder?

Pete

"Brett Robichaud" <br************ @nospam.yahoo.c om> wrote in message
news:eR******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl...
Yes I do have this ASP App down in a subdir of the main web.

I actually already tried creating a virtual directory for my app after
seeing this error but it made no difference. I also tried copying the
web.config down to the root and it made no difference.

I'm curious why it is acting differently on this server than it is locally on my machine? Is there some machine based policy that enforces this?

Optimally I would like to have my web.config in the subfolder. Is there a
way I can do this? I have full control of the server.

-Brett-
"Pete Beech" <pe*********@ho tmail.nojunk.co m> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP11.phx.gbl. ..
> This line indicates one possible reason:
> "This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being
configured
as an
> application in IIS."
>
> Web.config sections can be specified to only be allowed to be
modified at
> the application level, i.e. modified in the root folder of your web
> applications boundaries on the server. The authentication section

looks like
> it is one of them. At the moment, the folder which contains the

web.config
> where you have configured this section is not the root folder of the web > application.
>
> There's at least two explanations for this:
> 1) you have tried to configure this stuff in a subfolder of your web
> applications root folder
> 2) the virtual directory containing your app has not been configured as
an
> IIS web application within IIS.
>
> So, on your server, you need to go into IIS, then to the properties

for this
> folder, and make sure it has an application created on it. Or, configure > this section in the web.config which exists in the root folder of
your app.
>
> HTH,
> Cheers,
> Pete Beech
>
> "Brett Robichaud" <br************ @nospam.yahoo.c om> wrote in message
> news:Oi******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...
> > Is anyone familiar with this error? I have this running just fine

on
my
> > local machine but when I pushed it out to our development server I

get > this
> > error. I have no idea what it is saying. Any clues?
> >
> > -Brett-
> >
> > Server Error in '/' Application.
>


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> > ----
> >
> > Configuration Error
> > Description: An error occurred during the processing of a

configuration
> file
> > required to service this request. Please review the specific error
details
> > below and modify your configuration file appropriately.
> >
> > Parser Error Message: It is an error to use a section registered as > > allowDefinition ='MachineToAppl ication' beyond application level. This > error
> > can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an
> application
> > in IIS.
> >
> > Source Error:
> >
> >
> > Line 59: by Microsoft that offers a single logon and core profile
> > services for member sites.
> > Line 60: -->
> > Line 61: <authenticati on mode="Forms">
> > Line 62: <forms
> > Line 63: name="MIB.Ident ity"
> >
> >
> > Source File:
C:\Webs\CorpWeb \products\image bridge\myimageb ridge\web.confi g
> > Line: 61
> >
> >
> >
>


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> > ----
> >
> > Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.432 2.573; > ASP.NET
> > Version:1.1.432 2.573
> >
> >
>
>



Nov 18 '05 #8
Ok here is what I have.

The root web on this server is located at C:\Webs\CorpWeb . In IIS this is
setup as the Web Site. This is all classic ASP code. Everything below this
directory is part of our web site.

My new ASP.NET app is located in
C:\Webs\CorpWeb \products\image bridge\myimageb ridge. This location is of
course a subfolder of the main web site. This is the only location of
ASP.NET code on our site as of today, so I have a web.config in that subdir.
On IIS I started with no virtual directory in this subdir. From other
advice I tried creating a virtual directory in this subfolder and made sure
it was setup as an app. It made no difference.

I guess I'm not familiar with how virtual directories work with regards to
ASP.NET, so bear with my ignorance here.

As an experiment I did create new subfolder off the main website named MIB
and made it a virtual directory. I copied all my ASP.NET code into that
folder and it seems to work ok. But this isn't really what I want. There
are a number of pages in our site that reference the ASP.NET code in the
original directory /products/imagebridge/myimagebridge. I can create
virtual directory in this location if necessary, but I need pages to be able
to reference it as the full path not the virtual directory name.

I think I've just confused myself even more. Maybe I need to go back to the
basics of ASP.NET and virtual directories. I think what has confused me is
that it all works fine on my local dev box with no virtual directories, just
the default web site.

-Brett-

"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" <v-******@online.m icrosoft.com> wrote in message
news:cj******** ******@cpmsftng xa06.phx.gbl...
Hi Pete,

Since you've mentioned that the web application run well on the dev machine but failed on the deployment server. I think the problem mainly due to the
deployment server's IIS site's virtual folder hierarchy. I've mentioned the error info contains the folder struture of your develpment site as below:
C:\Webs\CorpWeb \products\image bridge\myimageb ridge\web.confi g

It's so deep that I suspect whether there is any virutal folder(at the
upper-level of your appliation) which has host a asp.net web application.
If so, your application will be consided as a sub folder of the upper level asp.net web application. Also, you can try creating a new virutual folder
under the site's root folder and deployment the web application in that
virutal directory to see whether the problem remains.

In addition, would you provide me more detailed of your deployment site's
IIS folder info?
Just those vds within
"C:\Webs\CorpWe b\products\imag ebridge\myimage bridge\web.conf ig"
which are the upper-level of your web application and how are their
Directory setting in the IIS. Then, I can try generating some tests on my
side regarding on the issue. Thanks.
Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

Get Secure! www.microsoft.com/security
(This posting is provided "AS IS", with no warranties, and confers no
rights.)

Get Preview at ASP.NET whidbey
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Nov 18 '05 #9
Hi Brett,
If you want to preserve the path, you don't need to create a virtual
directory at the point where the ASP.NET application code starts. As long as
it is under the main web, or another virtual directory, then thats no
problem. You just need to create the application at that point.

E.g. I just tested this by creating an ASP.NET app called WebApplication1
under the main web - [incidentally, since its in a direct subfolder of the
main web, it doesn't create a virtual directory (e.g. its in
C:\Inetpub\wwwr oot\WebApplicat ion1). But it does create an application
there*. However, all this would apply if WebApplication1 was a virtual
directory too]

Then I created a simple page, at C:\Inetpub\wwwr oot\WebApplicat ion1, which
does something on the server - a button which sets a label to some text, in
server side code. I ran that, using
http://localhost/WebApplication1/WebForm1.aspx , and made sure it worked.

Then I created a subfolder Sub1, then another under that, Sub2, and then
created a bin folder under Sub2. I copied the WebForm1.aspx, web.config into
Sub2, and the dll into Sub2\bin.

If I then go to http://localhost/WebApplication1/Sub.../WebForm1.aspx, I
get the parser error you got, about web.config containing stuff that should
only be in the root folder. Fair enough, because it is just a subfolder of
the apps root folder.

So, in IIS, I can create an application on Sub2 (but not a virtual
directory), and I can access the same URL again, and everything works fine.
Sub2 contains a completely separate IIS/ASP.NET application, which you can
access with the full path.

The way I think of it is that this creating an application thing sets
application boundaries, so that the folder you create the application at,
and every subfolder under it which is not itself an application defines the
scope of that application. IIS and ASP.NET will treat all the folders making
up the application as one entity, and any access to pages in those folders
will share Session and Application objects, global.asax, etc, etc. I'm sure
thats over-simplified, but thats how I think of it.

HTH,
Pete

* You can tell if its created a virtual directory by looking at the
properties of the folder in IIS, and looking at the local path - if its
greyed out and just has a relative path in there (in this example,
\WebApplication 1) then its not a virtual directory. If it is not greyed out,
and has a full path (say E:\MyOtherWebFo lders\Webapp1) then it is a virtual
directory (also if the icon is a folder with a globe, and not just a folder
icon, its a virtual directory).

"Brett Robichaud" <br************ @nospam.yahoo.c om> wrote in message
news:e%******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP10.phx.gbl. ..
Ok here is what I have.

The root web on this server is located at C:\Webs\CorpWeb . In IIS this is
setup as the Web Site. This is all classic ASP code. Everything below this directory is part of our web site.

My new ASP.NET app is located in
C:\Webs\CorpWeb \products\image bridge\myimageb ridge. This location is of
course a subfolder of the main web site. This is the only location of
ASP.NET code on our site as of today, so I have a web.config in that subdir. On IIS I started with no virtual directory in this subdir. From other
advice I tried creating a virtual directory in this subfolder and made sure it was setup as an app. It made no difference.

I guess I'm not familiar with how virtual directories work with regards to
ASP.NET, so bear with my ignorance here.

As an experiment I did create new subfolder off the main website named MIB
and made it a virtual directory. I copied all my ASP.NET code into that
folder and it seems to work ok. But this isn't really what I want. There
are a number of pages in our site that reference the ASP.NET code in the
original directory /products/imagebridge/myimagebridge. I can create
virtual directory in this location if necessary, but I need pages to be able to reference it as the full path not the virtual directory name.

I think I've just confused myself even more. Maybe I need to go back to the basics of ASP.NET and virtual directories. I think what has confused me is that it all works fine on my local dev box with no virtual directories, just the default web site.

-Brett-

"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" <v-******@online.m icrosoft.com> wrote in message
news:cj******** ******@cpmsftng xa06.phx.gbl...
Hi Pete,

Since you've mentioned that the web application run well on the dev

machine
but failed on the deployment server. I think the problem mainly due to the deployment server's IIS site's virtual folder hierarchy. I've mentioned

the
error info contains the folder struture of your develpment site as below: C:\Webs\CorpWeb \products\image bridge\myimageb ridge\web.confi g

It's so deep that I suspect whether there is any virutal folder(at the
upper-level of your appliation) which has host a asp.net web application. If so, your application will be consided as a sub folder of the upper

level
asp.net web application. Also, you can try creating a new virutual folder under the site's root folder and deployment the web application in that
virutal directory to see whether the problem remains.

In addition, would you provide me more detailed of your deployment site's IIS folder info?
Just those vds within
"C:\Webs\CorpWe b\products\imag ebridge\myimage bridge\web.conf ig"
which are the upper-level of your web application and how are their
Directory setting in the IIS. Then, I can try generating some tests on my side regarding on the issue. Thanks.
Regards,

Steven Cheng
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