Hi Guys. This is probably a very simple thing to do but I can't get it working properly. I've had a quick search through the forums but couldn't find what I was looking for. I am trying to make a new Virtual Path to a folder on the local hard drive e.g. C:/Test. I can set this up through iis 6 no problem. (I have MOSS 2007 with iis 6 on Server 2003) This works from the top levl site collection e.g. http://moss/_test/image.bmp will display the image located in the folder. However, I need to be able to access the folder from subsites e.g. http://moss/sub1/_test/image.bmp This results in a 404 file not found. Could someone tell me how to make this folder available globally. I've tried setting up a Managed Path explicit inclusion through Central administration but it still doesn't work. Cheers, Paul

Ivan, thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, thats not the easiest option for us. We already have a lot of pages referencing /_test We can't modify these pages. Is there a way we can make /_test global as above? Would it help if the content was in the VirtualDirectory for the web application?

Can anyone out there help with this? We need to make a folder inside a SharePoint web app virtual directory global so it can be accessed from both http://moss/_test/image.bmp and http://moss/sub1/_test/image.bmp (and any other subsite). We can't move the content into the layouts folder in the 12 hive since we already have pages referencing our /_test virtual path. We dont have authorization to edit these pages. Thanks, Paul

Is there a programmatic way to do this? ...creating a virtual directory under web site "_layouts" in IIS using the SP OM (so that the virtual directory is created on all WFEs in the farm)? What's the next best approach? Michael Herman (Toronto)Xpert Search Agents for Microsoft web sites: http://www.parallelspace.net/MicrodeX