Run an ASP.NET website in a subfolder

Question

Is there a way of running an ASP.NET website in a subfolder of the website?

As an example, say I wanted to run the screwturn wiki (http://www.screwturn.eu/) in a folder called "wiki" on my website, can I alter the web.config of the screwturn website to tell it that it is running in the "wiki" folder? (like saying that "~/" = "/wiki/")

The wiki would then find its assemblies that are in "~/bin" in "/wiki/bin" and the same for all other folders below the new root.

Answer 1

Piece of cake, you can either add a virtual directory to the root of the IIS website and point it at the path of your site or place it an a physical directory in the website root then turn it into an application by right-clicking on it in the IIS management console, going to properties and clicking "Create" next to application name.

Answer 2

You need to stop the configuration inheritance in the root web.config file so that the wiki web.config doesn't read anything from the root web.config.

Answer 3

As others pointed out. basically you need to put this in your child application Web.config, of course you also need to configure the domain (sub domain etc.), IIS setting as well.

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

    //your code here

    <system.web>
      //your code here
    </system.web>

    //your code here

  </location>     
</configuration>