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Where is located physical directory of my IIS Express site?

In which directory IIS Express stores my site DLLs and other resources?

I have examined the <site> section of my %USERPROFILE%\Documents\IISExpress\applicationhost.config and it looks like this:

<site name="WebSite1" id="1" serverAutoStart="true">
  <application path="/">
    <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="%IIS_SITES_HOME%\WebSite1" />
  </application>
  <bindings>
    <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation=":8080:localhost" />
  </bindings>
</site>

Physical path is set to %IIS_SITES_HOME%\WebSite1 which points to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Web Sites, but in this directory, there are just default files like iistart.htm, iis.png and other crap.

My site runs on localhost:58620, but I there is no site configuration applicationhost.config for it.

I start IIS Express from Visual Studio 2015.

So where is the physical directory of my localhost:58620 site located? Thanks.

Solution

  • In your solution folder there is a hidden sub folder called .vs, and an applicationHost.config there controls the things. This is a change in VS 2015.

    You can learn more from this article.