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CHAPTER 6 ■ DEPLOYING YOUR WEB SITE
Figure 6-3. Configuring the virtual directory name
The next step is to configure the physical path on your hard drive to where the files
for this web application will be stored. This can have the same name as the virtual directory,
but this is not necessary. The location can be anywhere on your drive, but the typical
location for web content is under C:\InetPub\wwwroot. You can see this step in Figure 6-4.
Figure 6-4. Configuring the physical directory
The next step is to set the access permissions for users accessing your site (see
Figure 6-5). By default, only the Read setting is checked, which means that users can read
supported files hosted by your site. Supported files include HTML pages, text files, and