Virtual Directories in XP Pro With Subst Drives

. Reply (E-mail) Forward (E-mail)

Subject: IIS Subst Drives Virtual Directories
From: "Jim C" <clearstead DeleteThis @hotmail.com> Sent: 9/10/2003
11:35:01 AM





Our company recently upgraded from Windows 2000 to Win XP
Pro. We our a software development company. ON Win 2000
we had our different softare releases on physical drives
like the following:

d:\release1
d:\release2
d:\release3

And whatever release we are currently working on /
debugging we would do the following:

subst x: d:\release1

And then register all of our com objects from x:\ and map
our IIS virtual directories to x:


This worked great in 2000. Now that we are in XP this
process seems to break.

We cannot map virtual directories to the x: subst drive.
I can understand that, it is unfortunate, but to get
around we started creating the vitual directory to
d:\release1. But the com objects are still registered x:

So in this configuration any web pages in d:\release1 fail
because they are registered in x:.


Have others seen this? Is there a workaround? I have
tried to run IIS as my user thinking that the subst drives
are only visible to my user, but that also fails (can
bring up any hosted pages).


Thanks,

Jim


..

That has not been the way to do things, although it may have been possible. Here is how your virtual dir should be setup:

no mapped drives; if pointing to another pc, then use UNC
local drive
redirection to a URL

You may ping the xp groups about this mapping, to see if it is still valid.

Thank you. I hope this information is helpful.

Tim Coffey [MSFT]

This posting is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no rights. You assume all risk for your use. © 2001 Microsoft
Corporation. All rights reserved.
--------------------
| Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
| From: "Jim c" <clearstead.DeleteThis@hotmail.com>
| Sender: "Jim c" <clearstead.DeleteThis@hotmail.com>
| Subject: Virtual Directories in XP Pro With Subst Drives
| Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:13:46 -0700
| Lines: 54
| Message-ID: <00f301c377e0$6bee60f0$a501280a@phx.gbl>
| MIME-Version: 1.0
| Content-Type: text/plain;
| charset="iso-8859-1"
| Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
| X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
| Thread-Index: AcN34GvuBzHELBLWSdyVVkjMf0Arkw==
| X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300
| Newsgroups: microsoft.public.inetserver.iis
| Path: cpmsftngxa06.phx.gbl
| Xref: cpmsftngxa06.phx.gbl microsoft.public.inetserver.iis:274949
| NNTP-Posting-Host: TK2MSFTNGXA13 10.40.1.165
| X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.inetserver.iis
|
| . Reply (E-mail) Forward (E-mail)
|
| Subject: IIS Subst Drives Virtual Directories
| From: "Jim C" <clearstead.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> Sent: 9/10/2003
| 11:35:01 AM
|
|
|
|
|
| Our company recently upgraded from Windows 2000 to Win XP
| Pro. We our a software development company. ON Win 2000
| we had our different softare releases on physical drives
| like the following:
|
| d:\release1
| d:\release2
| d:\release3
|
| And whatever release we are currently working on /
| debugging we would do the following:
|
| subst x: d:\release1
|
| And then register all of our com objects from x:\ and map
| our IIS virtual directories to x:
|
|
| This worked great in 2000. Now that we are in XP this
| process seems to break.
|
| We cannot map virtual directories to the x: subst drive.
| I can understand that, it is unfortunate, but to get
| around we started creating the vitual directory to
| d:\release1. But the com objects are still registered x:
|
| So in this configuration any web pages in d:\release1 fail
| because they are registered in x:.
|
|
| Have others seen this? Is there a workaround? I have
| tried to run IIS as my user thinking that the subst drives
| are only visible to my user, but that also fails (can
| bring up any hosted pages).
|
|
| Thanks,
|
| Jim
|
|
| .
|
|
|