To change settings of a virtual directory within a website:
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Go to Websites & Domains and find the website’s domain name.
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Click Virtual Directories.
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Browse to the directory whose preferences you want to change, and
click the corresponding icon
Properties when inside the required directory. -
Change the settings as required:
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Name - specify virtual directory name.
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Path - specify the path to the physical directory to which the
virtual directory is linked. -
Script source access - select this checkbox to allow users to
access source code if either Read or Write permissions are set.
Source code includes scripts in ASP applications. -
Read permission - select this checkbox to allow users to read
files or directories and their associated properties. -
Write permission - select this checkbox to allow users to
upload files and their associated properties to the virtual
directory or to change content in a write-enabled file. Write
access is allowed only if browser supports the PUT feature of the
HTTP 1.1 protocol. -
Directory browsing - select this checkbox to allow users to
see a hypertext listing of the files and subdirectories in the
virtual directory. -
Log visits - select this checkbox if you want to store the
information about visits to the virtual directory. -
Create application - select this checkbox to make the web
directory an IIS application. The directory becomes logically
independent from the rest of the website. -
Execute permissions - select the appropriate program execution
level allowed for the virtual directory.-
None - allow access only to static files such as HTML or
image files. - Scripts only - allow running scripts only, not executables.
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Scripts and Executables - remove all restrictions so that
all file types can be executed.
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None - allow access only to static files such as HTML or
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Allow to use parent paths - select this checkbox to allow
using double period in the path name when referring to a folder
above the current directory. This enables users to move up the
folder…
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