Now that
you have CFML up and running, let’s take a look at where the files for
your Web applications are kept on the computer. You can readily set IIS to
look for Web applications within any folder of your choice, including my Documents
folder or even a network share. By default, IIS maps the wwwroot Subfolder
of C:\Inetpub on the server to your Website’s root directory, and it
is generally considered a good repository for storing and managing your Web
Applications.
If you
open this wwwroot folder in Windows Explorer, and compare it with the folder
tree that appears on the left of the IIS console, you’ll notice that
the folders in Explorer also appear under your Default Web Site node. Note
that, while several of these folders have the regular Explorer folder icon
in the IIS view, others have a special Web application icon, indicating that
these folders contain the pages and other items for a particular Web application.
These special folders are what IIS calls Virtual Directories, and, in fact,
they do not have to share the name of the physical folder to which they map.
We’ll see more on this shortly.
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