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Last Updated 4th September 2004


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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