PRB: Cannot Create Disk-Based Web Application in InetPub\WWWRoot

ID: Q191965

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SYMPTOMS

From the File menu, select New Project Wizard. When you specify InetPub\WWWRoot in the Location textbox of the first dialog box, a new Web will not be created. The wizard continues through all the other steps as if this is a valid path, but after finishing the wizard, the following error appears:

Cannot create a disk-based Web application in "C:\InetPub\wwwroot\<projectname><projectname>_Local".
You cannot configure C:\InetPub\wwwroot\<projectname><projectname>_Local as a FrontPage Web, because the directory C:\InetPub\wwwroot above it is already configured as a FrontPage Web. You can open that Web instead.


RESOLUTION

Do not use InetPub\WWWRoot folder as the Location specified in the New Project wizard.


STATUS

This behavior is by design.


MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Create a new Web project from the File menu by clicking New Project.


  2. In the first dialog box titled New Project, in the Location textbox, enter or Browse to the location C:\InetPub\WWWRoot. You should see C:\InetPub\WWWRoot\<projectname> as the path in the Location textbox.


  3. Finish the wizard using appropriate and valid responses.


The error will occur at this point, and the project will not be created.

NOTE: This Location is simply specifying where the project will copy a file to, when the user issues a Get Working Copy, Get Latest Version, Check Out, or opens a file read Only on a project file. It's really not advisable to place the files you're editing into your InetPub\WWWRoot anyway. This location is where the product will be allowing the developer to edit the files from, and it would be advisable to put this work folder in a location that is not browsable by users. This location is for files- in-work, not for the final copy of files.

Additional query words: 


Keywords          : kbExtension kbFrontPage kbide kbServer kbVisID100 kbVisID600 kbGrpASP kbFrontPageX 
Version           : WINDOWS:1.0,6.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: July 9, 1999