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Asked: 2026-05-27T19:07:04+00:00

I previously made my Web Applications type of projects inside some individual directories and

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I previously made my “Web Applications” type of projects inside some individual directories
and have been making “Web Site” types (based on visual studio’s project types”) inside IIS.

Although It should be a repetitive task but I want to know the most usual needed steps for doing so

What I need :

Access to the media with absolute paths

As an example

I placed my project inside “IIS Root folder/ProjectBase/Project”
and convert that to Web Application via IIS.
It seems that I couldn’t access to my stored media files within the Project Folder.
What is the exact problem in this case ? Is it related to folder permissions of the “Project Folder” ?

Also should I make the “ProjectBase” Folder also a virtual directory ?

the program is running via cassini,
At first I want to have access to my Project based files via “absolute paths”

As a conclusion
Having “Web Application” Type running with possibility to access to its files via absolute paths.

It should be an easy task for the Pros, but, anyway I’m in hurry and needed good-fast advice.
thanks in advance

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  1. Editorial Team

    Could be a file permissions issue. You can resolve that by going through IIS and setting the permissions on the folders. Grant read/write to the IIS user for that machine. If you’re actually writing anything back you may need to grant access to Network_Services as well.

    Also you can look at adding a virtual directory to the website in IIS and point that to the actual physical directory on the box. That has solved some file access issues for me in the past.

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