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Asked: 2026-05-23T06:02:55+00:00

I have an ASP.NET MVC 3 application, that resides in lets say localhost/myapp under

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I have an ASP.NET MVC 3 application, that resides in lets say localhost/myapp under IIS.

There is a virtual directory (not application) localhost/myapp/upload under that application in IIS (version 7+) that is mapped to a network share.

I want ASP.NET to ignore requests to files under that directory, and let IIS handle the request on its own.

I tried things like adding routes.IgnoreRoute(“upload/{*pathInfo}”) to global.asax.cs but still no luck.

Getting ASP.NET errors like failed to start monitoring changes to ‘\\server\share\myupload\web.config’ when i try to access a static file e.g. a jpeg under that directory.

There is no web.config file under that upload directory. It is not an ASP.NET application. And i don’t want to grant access to network service, or ASP.NET user to just let it check that no such file exists there. If i do, someone would upload an .aspx file there and execute whatever code they like in my server.

Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The best solution for this case would probably be to disable directory listing for this directory like in this tutorial :

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731109(WS.10).aspx

    And for download links, you should create a permalink database and store them in database. So if you have file at http://www.mysite.com/myapp/upload/file1.doc , the URL that user will see would be http://www.mysite.com/myapp/ControllerThatHandlesRedirect/{some guid }. All the links would be stored in database and would be taken from the database according to specific guid. So the user will not see the real URL only a GUID . The controller would select URL from database based on the permalink and redirect user to that file .

    Hope that helps you

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