Application Folder

[Jim Heavey]

Hello, I am taking ASP.Net at school and I have run into differences
between running the code at home and running it at school.

I have a couple of issues which I believe are related to the folder
under which I am running my application on is not designated as an
"application folder" so things like Forms authentication does not
function correctly.

I have not been successfull in getting the school to change the folder
to an application folder, so I was wondering how I would go about
setting the same situation up on my home machine to "validate" that this
is the root cause of my issues.

Using Windows Explorer, I created a directory in WWWRoot and ported over
my application. When I do, the application does fail and I get a
"different error" message, but It is failing right in the web.config
file on the <authentication. On the school machine it was giving me an
error about "<customErrors", but that was a bogus message.

Now what exactly would I now need to do to make this folder an
"application folder", so that I can see the problem "go away".

Thanks in advance for your assitance!!!!!!!

 

[Chris Jackson]

Under the control panel, go to administrative tools, open up the IIS applet,
navigate to the tree to find the folder you want to set up as an
application, right click on that folder and select properties, and under
application settings click on create.