web.config inheritance

[gerry]

Is there any way to prevent web.config inheritance in nested web
applications ?

Here is the scenario, a 3rd party asp.net web application installed on an
asp.net intranet site :
http://intranet.company.org
http://intranet.company.org/3rdPartApp
both are configured as applications in IIS.
the subapp is not physcially installed beneath root app

Problems :
- the 3rd party app is completely unrelated ( functionally ) to the root
app and should never inherit any configuration settings but of course it
does.
- app relative items in the root web.config cause errors in the sub app
because of course they are app relative and the sub app can't find them -
ie. HttpHandlers
- successful installation of the 3rdparty app requires manual modification
of the web.config file to negate any problems caused by the root web.config
file

I thought that one solution might be to wrap the entire root app web.config
contents in a location tag to restrict it to just the root app - but I don't
see anyway to get this to work, location seems to only work for restricting
sub-app config with no way to restrict config to just the root app.

Gerry

 

[gerry]

this is a managed newsgroup right ?

 

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[gerry]

Hi ,
in fact i did check to see that my posting id was set up correctly - and it
was.
however i did notice is that the valid domains that can be used has been
reduced to a fairly small set ( 5 i think ) where it used to be open to any
domain.
I created a new id based on this new domain list and reposted my questions
et viola - responses appeared.
Gerry