Is "www2" a sort of reserved word for path of web projects ? ("Publish website" failing without errors)

[craigkenisston]

I can't believe what is happening on my computer right now.

I have a web project, file-system based on something like
c:\Projects\Pro jectX\www\.
I had to make some changes and testing in a separate new directory so I
created c:\Projects\Pro jectX\www2\ copied all the content and build. I
made the changes I wanted and test, everything worked fine.
I'm using the Development Webserver, not IIS.
But when I hit "Publish website", it failed without errores, just said
"Build failed.".
I closed and reopen the project and same thing. Both directories were
almost identical, but for a couple of files with 2 lines of difference.

I created another solution and put both projects there, same thing. The
one in www could be "published" , the other don't. "Build failed"
without no other error. Please, note, that the project was building
file using "Build website", or Ctrl-Shift-B.
I struggled with this for hours.

Now, just for fun I made a copy-paste of the same "www2" project and
created "wwwtest". Guess what? it worked !
No more ghost "Build failed" error. Made that process several times and
the new copy-pasted projects just build and "publish website" worked
without errors.

I checked the registry to see if that path was used by something, but
see nothing. Also, using Process Explorer I searched to see if some
hidden process was holding that directory, but it doesn't.

So, now I just renamed www2 to wwwanothertest and yes, it worked again
and the renaming went without problems so, it was not locked files.

So, I want to supposed, that simply there's something obscure with
having "www2" in the path.
What else could it be?

[John Timney \(MVP\)]

Not my expert area DNS, but www2 is usually used as a root level DNS
pattern, normally associated with redirection of URL's. So it may be that
wherever your resolve DNS at has that setup somewhere and you using it for a
web project is causing conflict.

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>I can't believe what is happening on my computer right now.

I have a web project, file-system based on something like
c:\Projects\Pro jectX\www\.
I had to make some changes and testing in a separate new directory so I
created c:\Projects\Pro jectX\www2\ copied all the content and build. I
made the changes I wanted and test, everything worked fine.
I'm using the Development Webserver, not IIS.
But when I hit "Publish website", it failed without errores, just said
"Build failed.".
I closed and reopen the project and same thing. Both directories were
almost identical, but for a couple of files with 2 lines of difference.

I created another solution and put both projects there, same thing. The
one in www could be "published" , the other don't. "Build failed"
without no other error. Please, note, that the project was building
file using "Build website", or Ctrl-Shift-B.
I struggled with this for hours.

Now, just for fun I made a copy-paste of the same "www2" project and
created "wwwtest". Guess what? it worked !
No more ghost "Build failed" error. Made that process several times and
the new copy-pasted projects just build and "publish website" worked
without errors.

I checked the registry to see if that path was used by something, but
see nothing. Also, using Process Explorer I searched to see if some
hidden process was holding that directory, but it doesn't.

So, now I just renamed www2 to wwwanothertest and yes, it worked again
and the renaming went without problems so, it was not locked files.

So, I want to supposed, that simply there's something obscure with
having "www2" in the path.
What else could it be?