We have this classic asp application that I tried to install on IIS7.5 (Windows 2008 Server R2). Everything works except that include virtual statements with backslash, e.g.
<!-- #include virtual="\includes\file.inc"-->
doesn't work even though I enabled "Enable parent paths" in IIS.
It does work if I change the backslash () to slash (/), i.e.
<!-- #include virtual="/includes/file.inc"-->
This code has been working for a long time and I'm not keen on changing that kind of code at this point. Is there some setting that I can set get this to work so I can use the code as it is?
Regards, Mathias
This has nothing to do with parent paths. If \ used work then it was a quirk because the virtual path is expected to follow the conventions of a URL.
You will need to hunt down all uses of the virtual attribute and change to the correct use of /