Creating a virtual directory

A website in IIS maps to a directory on the computer. If there are subdirectories within that folder, they'll show up in the IIS manager too. For example, the following website has the Scripts and CSS folders inside its root folder:

Creating a virtual directory

If we right-click on MyWebsite and choose Explore, we'll see that the Scripts and CSS directories sit squarely within the folder that the site is mapped to:

Creating a virtual directory

What if we wanted to map to a directory that wasn't within the root folder of the website? Maybe it's a folder at C:\Photos. To do this, ...

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