Multiple NET apps under 1 domain

[nospam]

Hello everyone -

Newbie here with another dumb question :-)

I want to have several apps under 1 domain - basically the domain root for
general users and then an "admin" folder with a database utility

www.generalusers.com
www.generalusers.com/admin

So the world will go to www.generalusers.com (Default.aspx) and see the
website and maybe fill out a form which is stored in a db.

The admin dba will go to www.generalusers.com/admin/admin.aspx and do
his/her stuff.

But if I set this up ( in 2 different VS 2005 solutions), when I publish the
admin app it erases the generalusers folder. During publish there is a
dialog box that comes up that asks is it ok to erase. If I say 'no' then
the publish fails.

How do I set this up?

There also seems to be a 'precompileapp.config' file which is written to the
domain root which I think will interfere with the generalusers app.

How do I stop the admin publishing from deleting everything in the root
folder?

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,
bruce

[Patrice]

Looks like you want to create two distinct applications. My personal
preference would be likely to put each one in its own folder and use a
virtual folder inside the main web application to map /admin to the location
for the admin application (also defined as a web application).

See :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301392

--
Patrice


"nospam" <[e-mail] écrit dans le message de news:
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Hello everyone -

Newbie here with another dumb question :-)

I want to have several apps under 1 domain - basically the domain root for
general users and then an "admin" folder with a database utility

www.generalusers.com
www.generalusers.com/admin

So the world will go to www.generalusers.com (Default.aspx) and see the
website and maybe fill out a form which is stored in a db.

The admin dba will go to www.generalusers.com/admin/admin.aspx and do
his/her stuff.

But if I set this up ( in 2 different VS 2005 solutions), when I publish
the admin app it erases the generalusers folder. During publish there is
a dialog box that comes up that asks is it ok to erase. If I say 'no'
then the publish fails.

How do I set this up?

There also seems to be a 'precompileapp.config' file which is written to
the domain root which I think will interfere with the generalusers app.

How do I stop the admin publishing from deleting everything in the root
folder?

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,
bruce

[nospam]

Thanks for the reply Patrice.

Yes I do have 2 apps. I don't have access to IIS. I do my development using
VS 2005 and their local pseudo IIS server.

I have 2 VS solutions which need to be published to the same domain.
I could combine the two ( and sort out all of the connection string possible
namespace collisions).
I was looking for the ability to maintain 2 VS solutions that point to the
same domain - for example
www.main.com for the world
www.main.com/admin/admin.aspx only for DBA

It doesn't look like the publish functionality supports this intuitively. I
dk.

"Patrice" <http://www.chez.com/scribe/wrote in message
news:ub**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

Looks like you want to create two distinct applications. My personal
preference would be likely to put each one in its own folder and use a
virtual folder inside the main web application to map /admin to the
location for the admin application (also defined as a web application).

See :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301392

--
Patrice


"nospam" <[e-mail] écrit dans le message de news:
N68Ni.30774$jC5.27661@trnddc04...

>Hello everyone -

Newbie here with another dumb question :-)

I want to have several apps under 1 domain - basically the domain root
for general users and then an "admin" folder with a database utility

www.generalusers.com
www.generalusers.com/admin

So the world will go to www.generalusers.com (Default.aspx) and see the
website and maybe fill out a form which is stored in a db.

The admin dba will go to www.generalusers.com/admin/admin.aspx and do
his/her stuff.

But if I set this up ( in 2 different VS 2005 solutions), when I publish
the admin app it erases the generalusers folder. During publish there is
a dialog box that comes up that asks is it ok to erase. If I say 'no'
then the publish fails.

How do I set this up?

There also seems to be a 'precompileapp.config' file which is written to
the domain root which I think will interfere with the generalusers app.

How do I stop the admin publishing from deleting everything in the root
folder?

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,
bruce

[Patrice]

My personal preferences would be :
- to use a virtual dir so that each application is in its own physical
directory (and not one as a subfolder in the main one)
- to combine both
- to deploy them NOT using the publish functionality (you could likely use
FTP).

As a side note if you don"t have access to IIS how could you anyway define
the /admin directory as being an IIS application ?

Good luck.

--
Patrice
"nospam" <[e-mail] écrit dans le message de news:
TK8Ni.11489$ht5.3885@trnddc02...

Thanks for the reply Patrice.

Yes I do have 2 apps. I don't have access to IIS. I do my development
using VS 2005 and their local pseudo IIS server.

I have 2 VS solutions which need to be published to the same domain.
I could combine the two ( and sort out all of the connection string
possible namespace collisions).
I was looking for the ability to maintain 2 VS solutions that point to the
same domain - for example
www.main.com for the world
www.main.com/admin/admin.aspx only for DBA

It doesn't look like the publish functionality supports this intuitively.
I dk.

"Patrice" <http://www.chez.com/scribe/wrote in message
news:ub**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>Looks like you want to create two distinct applications. My personal
preference would be likely to put each one in its own folder and use a
virtual folder inside the main web application to map /admin to the
location for the admin application (also defined as a web application).

See :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301392

--
Patrice


"nospam" <[e-mail] écrit dans le message de news:
N68Ni.30774$jC5.27661@trnddc04...

>>Hello everyone -

Newbie here with another dumb question :-)

I want to have several apps under 1 domain - basically the domain root
for general users and then an "admin" folder with a database utility

www.generalusers.com
www.generalusers.com/admin

So the world will go to www.generalusers.com (Default.aspx) and see the
website and maybe fill out a form which is stored in a db.

The admin dba will go to www.generalusers.com/admin/admin.aspx and do
his/her stuff.

But if I set this up ( in 2 different VS 2005 solutions), when I publish
the admin app it erases the generalusers folder. During publish there
is a dialog box that comes up that asks is it ok to erase. If I say
'no' then the publish fails.

How do I set this up?

There also seems to be a 'precompileapp.config' file which is written to
the domain root which I think will interfere with the generalusers app.

How do I stop the admin publishing from deleting everything in the root
folder?

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,
bruce

[nospam]

Patrice,
Thanks for your reply.
I have bitten the bullet and merged the 2 VS solutions into 1.
I guess I am an old crusty C++ programmer and developed the 2 individual
solutions from habit.

In regards to IIS, I use Visual Studio to display my applications in a
browser.
When I do this a process starts up locally named "Visual Studio Development
Server".
I guess that is acting as IIS.

Regards,
bruce

"Patrice" <http://www.chez.com/scribe/wrote in message
news:eN****************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

My personal preferences would be :
- to use a virtual dir so that each application is in its own physical
directory (and not one as a subfolder in the main one)
- to combine both
- to deploy them NOT using the publish functionality (you could likely use
FTP).

As a side note if you don"t have access to IIS how could you anyway define
the /admin directory as being an IIS application ?

Good luck.

--
Patrice
"nospam" <[e-mail] écrit dans le message de news:
TK8Ni.11489$ht5.3885@trnddc02...

>Thanks for the reply Patrice.

Yes I do have 2 apps. I don't have access to IIS. I do my development
using VS 2005 and their local pseudo IIS server.

I have 2 VS solutions which need to be published to the same domain.
I could combine the two ( and sort out all of the connection string
possible namespace collisions).
I was looking for the ability to maintain 2 VS solutions that point to
the same domain - for example
www.main.com for the world
www.main.com/admin/admin.aspx only for DBA

It doesn't look like the publish functionality supports this intuitively.
I dk.

"Patrice" <http://www.chez.com/scribe/wrote in message
news:ub**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>>Looks like you want to create two distinct applications. My personal
preference would be likely to put each one in its own folder and use a
virtual folder inside the main web application to map /admin to the
location for the admin application (also defined as a web application).

See :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301392

--
Patrice


"nospam" <[e-mail] écrit dans le message de news:
N68Ni.30774$jC5.27661@trnddc04...
Hello everyone -

Newbie here with another dumb question :-)

I want to have several apps under 1 domain - basically the domain root
for general users and then an "admin" folder with a database utility

www.generalusers.com
www.generalusers.com/admin

So the world will go to www.generalusers.com (Default.aspx) and see the
website and maybe fill out a form which is stored in a db.

The admin dba will go to www.generalusers.com/admin/admin.aspx and do
his/her stuff.

But if I set this up ( in 2 different VS 2005 solutions), when I
publish the admin app it erases the generalusers folder. During
publish there is a dialog box that comes up that asks is it ok to
erase. If I say 'no' then the publish fails.

How do I set this up?

There also seems to be a 'precompileapp.config' file which is written
to the domain root which I think will interfere with the generalusers
app.

How do I stop the admin publishing from deleting everything in the root
folder?

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,
bruce