How to Create Virtual Directories in WebSitePanel

Written by Naveed Ashraf Thursday, 3 February 2011

Applied on : WebSitePanel (Windows) Hosting

A virtual directory is a friendly name, or alias, for a physical directory on your server that does not reside in the home directory. For example, if you create a virtual directory called “images” from a folder anywhere on your server, the contents of that folder will appear at http://www.mydomain.com/images/ even though they are not physically located in the images/ subfolder of your web site’s root folder.

How to create a virtual directory in a website:

Step 1. Open the Web Site Properties page by clicking the website name under the “Website” Link

Step 2. Select the Virtual Dirs tab and click the Create Directory button. The Add Virtual Directory page will open.

Step 3. In the Directory Name box, type a name for the virtual directory. In the Folder box, type or browse to the physical directory in which the virtual directory resides.

Step 4. Click the Create Directory button. The Virtual Directory Properties page will open. This page is a limited version like the properties page of a website.

This concludes how to create a virtual directory in WebSitePanel

5 Comments

1. adam shan   |  Sunday, 06 February 2011 at 11:36 pm

   wow. This is what I am looking for in dotnetpanel control panel.

   
2. ok   |  Wednesday, 09 February 2011 at 1:37 am

   Hi,

   How to create virtual dir with name less than 3 characters. It’s not allowed by control panel. However I need 2-characters-length dirs for language codes.

   
3. Arvand Sabetian   |  Saturday, 12 February 2011 at 9:52 am

   You can do this by using IIS Remote Management which you can setup a user and pass for in the remote management tab.

   
4. Joao Costa   |  Monday, 03 October 2011 at 4:05 pm

   I did not find the option to create a virtual dir on IIS remote manager… I did find an option to import an application, but it asks me for a .zip file… should I zip my application?

   
5. Ralph   |  Thursday, 03 November 2011 at 5:07 pm

   WebsitePanel is actually not creating a virtual directory, but adds an application to the site.
   If you check in IIS7, the icons are not the same and the behaviour isn’t either.

   Is there a way to create a simple virtual directory, instead of an application…?