IIS question

[lokiju]

I'm setting up an FTP.

I have my home directory which is fine, but I want to access folders on another hard drive but I want it to function so that it looks like it's all within the same directory when I connect via FTP.

Say I have a folder called FTP, thats my home directory, when I connect via FTP i want to see folders such as

Audio
Videos
Apps

But want to have the contents of those folders physically stored on different hard drives.

Like Audio will be on C:
Videos will be on D:
and Apps will be on E:

While my FTP home directory will be located on F:

HTF do I do this, I did this a long time ago and for the life of me can't get it to list when I connect via FTP but can change to those other directories if I just change directory and type in their names.

Anyone know?

 

[imported_LoKe]

Look in the httpd.conf and make a virtual path.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: LoKe
Look in the httpd.conf and make a virtual path.

I did make a virtual directory and pointed it to the folder on the other drives I wanted but when I connect it doesn't list it as a folder option, but if i manually type in the directory name for example if I'm connecting via IE and hit enter, it changes to that directory fine.

 

[lokiju]

Anyone?

 

[Thor86]

You need to create virtual folders under your FTP site. Then just point the virtual folders to your other physical drives/letters.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: Thor86
You need to create virtual folders under your FTP site. Then just point the virtual folders to your other physical drives/letters.

As stated above, I did do this but when I connect via FTP it doesn't list these folders however I can manually change directory and access them.

My issue is that it is NOT displaying the directories that have been created via the virtual directory method basically.

 

[Thor86]

If you cannot see your virtual folders that you created, where are you creating them? They should be under the default x:\inetpub\ftproot folder.

Here is more info:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodte...b-4b0d-8dee-04f71ad6c14a.mspx?mfr=true

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: Thor86
If you cannot see your virtual folders that you created, where are you creating them? They should be under the default x:\inetpub\ftproot folder.

Here is more info:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodte...b-4b0d-8dee-04f71ad6c14a.mspx?mfr=true

That is for IIS 6 I'm running 5.1, but maybe that's the issue, I haven't seen a way so far that I can just upgrade to IIS 6.0 without installing Server 2003.

 

[bamacre]

Do you have permissions set up on the directories?

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: bamacre
Do you have permissions set up on the directories?

Yep, just for testing I got it wide up to Everyone with full access.

 

[lokiju]

TTT

 

[spyordie007]

It's been a long time since I've ran into this (I dont run much FTP anymore) but AFAIK this is normal behavior. The VDs dont show under the directory listing (you have to manually put the /vdir in the path).

I dont know if there is a way to change this behavior or not.

I suppose if you have a consistant set of clients (i.e. IE) you may be able to create shortcuts in your "real" root that point to the virtual directories.

 

[spyordie007]

Easier solutions for you:
http://aspalliance.com/506

Just create a real (empty) directory with the same name so it appears under the directory listing, but than when the user accesses it their request will go to the vdirectory (which takes precidence).