OK, I see the dilemma. Perhaps the pragmatic approach is to simply swap the web site you want to work on into view when you want to work on it. You could do this by changing the published directory in IIS, or by deleting the contents of wwwroot and copying in the next one to work on.
OTOH if your naming of the include virtual directories is careful (the same if the contents are the same - e.g. common code - and different otherwise) they could all live in the same wwwroot without treading on each other's toes, and you could put the rest of the sites elsewhere. Dave S ----- Original Message ----- From: GLSmyth To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:07 AM Subject: Re: [ASP] Include Virtual Not Found Dave - Yes, I am sure that you are right. The reason I really do not want to do this is that I work on multiple websites, which is why I need to have the sites within the root. If I could figure out how to tell the system that the folder is the root, as opposed to the Default Web Site (again, perhaps this is just not possible). Cheers - george --- In [email protected], "David Smart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This doesn't account for its working on your local machine - where the default web site is the local machine. > > Yes, you should be able to create a duplicate of the web site on your machine. Just grab the whole directory structure, starting with the directory that holds the main web site file, and taking all sub-directories. Bring that across to your default IIS local website directory - e.g. wwwroot. If the directory structure is the same and in the same relationship with the site's default directory, everything should work. > > I actually duplicate my server's IIS directory structure exactly onto my local machine when I'm testing locally. Doing that takes all the guesswork out of it. > > Dave S > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: GLSmyth > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:19 PM > Subject: Re: [ASP] Include Virtual Not Found > > > Dave - > > "sesius/" worked because that is the website folder within the Default > Web Site. It was my understanding that the use of "virtual" would > allow for the file to be found anywhere within the website, with the > path being relative to the site's root. From what I can tell, locally > through IIS the Default Web Site is always considered to be the root. > I have two websites within there, at the same level as IISHelp. > > Perhaps if I could create a site at the same level as the Default Web > Site then that would solve things, but I do not see a means for doing > this (perhaps it is not possible). > > Cheers - > > george > > > --- In [email protected], "David Smart" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unless you specify an absolute path, the include will be relative to > where the parent file came from. > > > > The best way to test in a local IIS is to take a copy of the whole > site, with the same directory structure, and test the files from > within their correct places. This means that relative file references > will work fine, and will continue to work when you put the changed > files back onto the server. > > > > As to why adding "sesius/" to your string made things work ... not > sure. It won't have taken you back to the server. I can only assume > that there is a sesius sub-directory sitting in the directory that > you're running the file from. > > > > BTW your file/virtual problems should also go away if your duplicate > the entire site in local IIS. > > > > Dave S > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: GLSmyth > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:41 AM > > Subject: [ASP] Include Virtual Not Found > > > > > > I would like to use <!-- #include virtual="DBConn.asp" --> to get to > > my connection string. My code works with "file" and "virtual" on the > > server, but only "file" works locally on my computer under Windows XP > > IIS (I am getting the error message "The include file 'DBConn.asp' was > > not found." > > > > Things work when I change the string to "<!-- #include > > virtual="sesius/DBConn.asp" -->" > > > > I have gone to IIS and changed the Starting Point to "Default > > Web\sesius" but that did not appear to make a difference. > > > > My assumption is that IIS does not know that sesius is the root of the > > website, and I do not know how to give it this information. > > > > I would like to use the initial string above because then the code for > > the test bed on my computer and the server would be the same. > > > > Any ideas how I can get this to work? > > > > Thanks - > > > > george > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Home : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/active-server-pages > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Post : [email protected] > > Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > SPONSORED LINKS Active server page web hosting Active server page > hosting Active server pages > > Active server page asp Active server page training > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > YAHOO! 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