Question

I have my main website’s application on my server at C:\inetpub\wwwroot, which I can view at http://www.mysite.com

I’ve created another separate MVC web application, named Supapp, at C:\inetpub\Supapp. I’d like to set it up so that if I visit http://www.mysite.com/Subdir, it will run my Subdir app.

So I went into IIS, expanded my existing website, and added a new Application, pointing the root folder to C:\inetpub\Supapp\.

When I go to view http://www.mysite.com/Subdir, I get a compilation error:

Compiler Error Message: CS0246: The type or namespace name ‘MySite’ could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Source Error:

Line 98:         <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" />
Line 99:         <add namespace="System.Web.Routing" />
Line 100:        <add namespace="MySite.HtmlHelpers" />
Line 101:      </namespaces>
Line 102:    </pages>

Source File: c:\inetpub\wwwroot\web.config Line: 100

So for some reason, my sub application is getting an error from trying to load a namespace from the parent application.

Is there a way around this? The Subdir application is in a completely different directory.

Answer 1

config files are hierarchical, your sub web.config inherit things from your root .config. If you want certain parts to be ignred you can add inheritInChildApplications="false" attribute to tags you don’t to be inherited.

For your case add inheritInChildApplications="false" to your aplication root location

   <location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
   </location>