difference between a Website and a Virtual Directory
What is difference between a Website and a Virtual Directory?
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rupaliPosted Oct 21, 2009, 1:34 AM
Frank BPosted Oct 7, 2009, 8:03 AM
If binding to a particular port (and possibly using host headers but I haven't verified that point) is a requirement, a website is what you want.
Niradhip ChakrabortyPosted Oct 7, 2009, 5:56 AM
An Website in IIS has all sorts of cool stuff
* It's own application-level variables.
* In IIS6 it has an application pool in which you can configure recycling of the application and memory/cpu consumption
* You can set host headers/ip addresses in IIS web sites.
A virtual directory has one advantage I can think of - it can point to a directory outside of your website structure.
for instance - if you have your website under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\website1, you can set a virtual directory to point to any location on your pc and even a network location.