Visual Studio 2015 add virtual directory

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I have a web project in VS2015 (using IIS Express) and need to add a virtual directory for files that can be downloaded but are created by another process. I have added an entry to my applicationhost.config file as shown below. Whenever I start my server and go directly to a file at the location I receive a 404 in the IIS Express log.

<site name="CustomerPortal" id="2">
    <application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
      <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\Dev\WebApps\CustomerPortal\src\CustomerPortal\wwwroot" />
      <virtualDirectory path="/WebReports" physicalPath="\\backup03\WebReports" />
    </application>

    <bindings>
                <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:49373:localhost" />
    </bindings>
</site>

Is there something different in VS2015 to add a virtual directory like this?

I am editing the config file in my project dir/.vs/config/applicationhost.config.

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For VS.Net 2015:

1.- Open the file applicationhost.config located in the following path:

{your_solution_folder}\.vs\config\

2.- Search for the tag "sites" and find the tag for the project you want to create the virtual directory.

3.- Add the following lines:

<application path="/{your_virtual_directory_name}" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
   <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="{your_physical_path}" />
</application>

It will be something like the following:

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Visual-studio – Creating virtual directories in IIS express

IIS express configuration is managed by applicationhost.config.
You can find it in

Users\<username>\Documents\IISExpress\config folder.

Inside you can find the sites section that hold a section for each IIS Express configured site.

Add (or modify) a site section like this:

<site name="WebSiteWithVirtualDirectory" id="20">
   <application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
     <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="c:\temp\website1" />
   </application>
   <application path="/OffSiteStuff" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
     <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="d:\temp\SubFolderApp" />
   </application>
    <bindings>
      <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:1132:localhost" />
   </bindings>
</site>

Practically you need to add a new application tag in your site for each virtual directory. You get a lot of flexibility because you can set different configuration for the virtual directory (for example a different .Net Framework version)

EDIT Thanks to Fevzi Apaydın to point to a more elegant solution.

You can achieve same result by adding one or more virtualDirectory tag to the Application tag:

<site name="WebSiteWithVirtualDirectory" id="20">
   <application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
     <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="c:\temp\website1" />
     <virtualDirectory path="/OffSiteStuff" physicalPath="d:\temp\SubFolderApp" />
   </application>
    <bindings>
      <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:1132:localhost" />
   </bindings>
</site>

Reference:

Visual Studio 2015 – Change template for new applicationHost.config

You can edit the template that Visual Studio uses at %ProgramFiles(x86)%\IIS Express\config\templates\PersonalWebServer\applicationhost.config

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