RE: Site root folder issue

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From: ural (ural_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:46:02 -0700

Put some dummy web.config at the root, because your HTMl pages will not anyway get affected by this web.config and your ASP.NET pages also work fine.

"John" wrote:

> Hi
>
> We have the html portion of our site in the site root folder on a remote
> site hosted with a web hosting company. I am now trying to add some asp.net
> bits to the site but in trying to keep these separate from the main site, I
> have copied the asp.net files into a sub folder under the root. The problem
> is that I am having problems with the web.config file when running the
> asp.net main aspx page, as presumably the web.config file needs to be in the
> root folder of a site. What is it that I can do? Should I ask my web hosting
> company to set some settings to make asp.net files think that they are in
> the root folder? Something else?
>
> Thanks
>
> Regards
>
>
>

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