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Inside ASP.NET
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Inside ASP.NET

by Scott Worley
November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
16h 7m
English
Sams
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Deploying the web.config Configuration File

The web.config usually resides in the root directory of your web application, and its settings are applied to all child subdirectories therein; however, each subdirectory can also have its own web.config file. Take a look at the following directory structure shown in Figure 3.1, and I will explain why.

Figure 3.1. Example of a web directory structure.

In Figure 3.1 a web.config file is placed in the \WebRoot directory. Any ASP.NET code processed in that directory or any subdirectories therein use the settings in the web.config file.

Also, a web.config file is in the \Application subdirectory, which ...

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