Re: Single vs multiple IIS application roots

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Hi Shimon,

Thanks for your reply. I guess my problem is that I'm not sure what is
meant by "application". It seems to mean different things in different
systems and contexts. To take a bad analogy: is Windows an "application"?
If it is, then what do you call Notepad? A "sub-application"? In this
analogy my website is like Windows and the individual applications are like
Notepad. I want some global data to be available to all applications. I
guess that's my only real requirement.

> why would you want to have a lot of different application? You have them
> like this now- Why?
Actually, right now I have only ASP pages. And they are all in a single IIS
application root, and it works fine. They are not "different applications"
in the IIS sense of the term.

Thanks again,
Carl

"Shimon Sim" <shimonsim048@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:unFW7e6aFHA.2736@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I would look on this logically - forget about implementation - is it one
>application or it is a lot of different applications?
> why would you want to have a lot of different application? You have them
> like this now- Why?
>
> The are a lot of reasons to have one application instead of multiple but
> what are your requirements?
>
> Shimon
>
>
> "Carl Johansen" <carl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:u$Ky9K6aFHA.2520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>I have a big ASP website (used by several thousand car dealers) that is a
>>collection of lots of small and medium-sized applications. Now I want to
>>start adding ASP.NET applications to it. I have read Q307467 (How To
>>Create an ASP.NET Application from Multiple Projects for Team Development)
>>and it seems to work well. I understand that when you create a web
>>project in VS.NET, it creates an IIS application root, and that you can
>>remove this root from IIS to make the project a "child" project of the
>>root project. When you do this, you can share Session and Application
>>variables between pages in the various projects.
>>
>> But I can't decide whether my whole website should be under a single IIS
>> application root, or whether I should have a root for each project. I
>> would like to be able to share Application variables amongst all the
>> applications, but is having a single root the only way to accomplish
>> this? I don't need to share Session variables between applications. Over
>> time I will build up lots of applications so I could have lots of
>> application roots. I've been trying to figure out the pros and cons.
>> Here's what I've thought of:
>>
>> * Multiple application roots would mean more overhead for the IIS server.
>> Is this a big concern?
>> * Multiple application roots is the default behaviour of VS.NET.
>> * I need to find a way to share Application variables if I use multiple
>> roots.
>> * Each application root has its own settings, so difficult to keep
>> control over ASP timeout, session timeout, etc, if you have many roots.
>>
>> I am wondering: WWMD (What Would Microsoft Do)?
>>
>>
>> Thanks very much,
>> Carl Johansen
>> http://www.carljohansen.co.uk
>>
>
>


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