Apache"s UserDir directive possible on IIS?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/public_html.html

Is there anything like that in IIS?
It would seem from the article shown below there is not:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv /technologies/iis/reskit/iischp3.mspx

"IIS 5.0 does not offer a default directory for ISP user httpd
directories. You must create a virtual directory for each user in the
IIS snap-in, and then point it to the user directory in Windows Explorer."

Of course I could just install Apache for Windows...

Re: Apache"s UserDir directive possible on IIS?

On Jul 31, 9:39 pm, NZSchoolTech
wrote:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/public_html.html
>
> Is there anything like that in IIS?
> It would seem from the article shown below there is not:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000 serv/technolo...
>
> "IIS 5.0 does not offer a default directory for ISP user httpd
> directories. You must create a virtual directory for each user in the
> IIS snap-in, and then point it to the user directory in Windows Explorer."
>
> Of course I could just install Apache for Windows...



Yes, IIS allows such functionality.

IIS supports UserDir behavior with the correct extensibility module.
Just like Apache requires an extensibility module to support UserDir
directive.

The question is whether anyone has written, supported, and made such
an extensibility module. It's about 50 lines of code worth of effort
on IIS - not really hard to do. However, I do not think anyone has
done it for IIS, though it has been done for Apache.

If you want the functionality, you can either write the code for IIS,
find the code for IIS, or leechshare the existing
codebase on Apache.

Thus, the reality is not that IIS cannot do something -- IIS6 is
competitive and IIS7 core is technically superior to any Apache
version. The difference is the monopolistic bundling of extensibility
modules with Apache distros.


//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
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