I have an ASP.NET web application which has 3 projects to handle 3 different layers of the application (UI , BL and Data Access). When I publish the UI project a directory called Precompiled will be created in the solution and files will be available there. This folder will have a BIN directory which holds required DLLs (referenced DLLs and DLL of Business Layer project & DLL of DataAccessLayer Project) too.
This works fine. Now I want to use the same BL and DataAcess layer to run multiple UIs (websites). I want to have website called WebsiteA, WebSiteB, MyWebSite1, ShyjusWeb etc. I want to create virtual directory for each one of these. So I created a website and under that i created Virtual directories for the above sites. I put index.asp (of the UI project I had in my solution) in the Folder which is mapping to one virtual directory and when trying to access, I am getting an error like the following:
Parser Error
Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately.
Parser Error Message: Could not load the assembly 'App_Web_lls0_qzf'. Make sure that it is compiled before accessing the page.
Source Error:
Line 1: <%@ page language="C#" autoeventwireup="true" inherits="index, App_Web_lls0_qzf" %>
Line 2: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
Line 3: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
Source File: /websiteA/index.aspx Line: 1
It seems like the page is not able to access the required DLL's from the BIN folder. Is there any way to solve this? IIS 6.0 I am playing with. My folder hierarchy is like this now:
Root Folder – > Bin folder, Various UI related files & folders a folder which is converted to a virtual directory now (WebSiteA). Inside WebSiteA, I have inde.aspx, which is the same copy as of the index.aspx available in the root folder.
I need to have the same website (copy with only some CSS changes for each site). If I copy the Bin folder from my root and paste it in each of the virtual directory folders along with the index.aspx, it's working. But I don't want to have same BIN folder for each sites. I want to have only one BIN, which should be in the ROOT folder
Best Answer
I think you have gotten yourself in a muddle. The file you mention (App_Web_lls0_qzf) appears to be the compiled DLL for the first specified UI/BL/DAL combination and I am unfortunately confused by your description of your folder structure.
I am not clear about whether you are wanting multiple COPIES of the same site or whether each site is different.
Have you not tried creating the 4 websites, and referencing the the common BL and DAL projects?
Remember that your file structure and your IIS structure do not have to be the same, i.e.
and in IIS
Remember inheritance! - DLLs and references in your master website will be inherited into your virtual directories. You may also wish to consider creating web app pools for each web site.