Adding a virtual directory for your website

To add a virtual directory for you website:

• Click the Domains menu under the General section.

• In the My Websites section, select the required website in the table listing and click the Properties button.

• Under the Domain section click the Virtual Directory button.

• Click the Add Virtual Directory button, and provide the following information for the website.

Directory Name:

Here enter the name you want to give to the virtual directory being added.

Physical Path:

Here enter the physical path for the virtual directory being added.

Allow Anonymous:

Anonymous access, when enabled, allows anyone access without asking for a user name or password. By default anonymous access is ON.

Access Permissions:

You can set a variety of access permissions that apply to the virtual directory as a whole. This can range from only allowing browsers to read the virtual directory right through to allowing browsers to view your directory structure. The following permissions are available. And you can have multiple types of permissions available at a time.

Read

Sites with read access will be displayed to browsers.

Write

Sites with write access can be modified by browsers.

Directory Browsing

Sites with directory browsing access will display the directory structure to browsers.

Execute Permissions:

Sites with execute access will allow applications to run.

None:

This option implies that you don’t allow any kind of script or executables to run at the selected website.

Scripts:

This option implies that you only allow scripts to run at selected website.

Scripts & Executables:

This option implies that you only allow both scripts and executables to run at selected website.