> I'm trying to configure a web server under Virtual PC where the default
> web site directory exists on the host PC.
>
> I have configured VPC 2004 and Windows XP Pro as both the host and
> guest OS and everything seems to be working. Networking appears to be
> OK as I can ping the host from the guest and vice. I have configured a
> Shared Folder in the VM console settings such that the drive "E" on the
> guest uses the host's drive "e:\inetpub".
>
> However, when I start the guest IIS manager and try to configure the
> home directory I can select "E:\inetpub" but the "OK" button is grayed
> out. The contents of ghe drive and directory are visble from the guest
> PC Explorer. Is it not possible to use a host PC directory as a web
> server directory?
>

> Hi,
>
> If your "E" shared folder is "E:\inetpub" on the host, then you would only
> set the home directory to "E:" (because E:\ would actually map to the host's
> E:\inetpub)
>
> Regarding whether or not this is possible, there's no reason that it
> shouldn't be, but performance may be less than desirable
>
> --
> --Jonathan Maltz [Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - IIS, Virtual PC]
> http://www.visualwin.com - A Windows Server 2003 visual, step-by-step
> tutorial site :-)
> http://vpc.visualwin.com - Does <insert OS name> work on VPC 2004? Find out
> here
> Only reply by newsgroup. I do not do technical support via email. Any
> emails I have not authorized are deleted before I see them.
>
>
> "John" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
> > I'm trying to configure a web server under Virtual PC where the default
> > web site directory exists on the host PC.
> >
> > I have configured VPC 2004 and Windows XP Pro as both the host and
> > guest OS and everything seems to be working. Networking appears to be
> > OK as I can ping the host from the guest and vice. I have configured a
> > Shared Folder in the VM console settings such that the drive "E" on the
> > guest uses the host's drive "e:\inetpub".
> >
> > However, when I start the guest IIS manager and try to configure the
> > home directory I can select "E:\inetpub" but the "OK" button is grayed
> > out. The contents of ghe drive and directory are visble from the guest
> > PC Explorer. Is it not possible to use a host PC directory as a web
> > server directory?
> >

> Jonathan
>
> Thanks. I've been playing arond some more and find that I cannot access
> the web server even from a browser on the VM. The ONLY way I can get
> anything is to set the home directory of the default web server to
> c:\inetpub\wwwroot and then I can get the sample site --- I get the
> sample (Welcome to Windows XP Internet Services) but I also get and
> additional browser window with a 403 error in it.
>
> I've also tried copying one of my e:\inetpub sites to the c:\inetpub
> but I am unable to access it --- I get a 403 error.
>
> Any idea what's happening?
>
> John
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Jonathan Maltz [MS-MVP] wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> If your "E" shared folder is "E:\inetpub" on the host, then you would
>> only
>> set the home directory to "E:" (because E:\ would actually map to the
>> host's
>> E:\inetpub)
>>
>> Regarding whether or not this is possible, there's no reason that it
>> shouldn't be, but performance may be less than desirable
>>
>> --
>> --Jonathan Maltz [Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - IIS, Virtual PC]
>> http://www.visualwin.com - A Windows Server 2003 visual, step-by-step
>> tutorial site :-)
>> http://vpc.visualwin.com - Does <insert OS name> work on VPC 2004? Find
>> out
>> here
>> Only reply by newsgroup. I do not do technical support via email. Any
>> emails I have not authorized are deleted before I see them.
>>
>>
>> "John" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
>> news:(email address - cut out)...
>> > I'm trying to configure a web server under Virtual PC where the default
>> > web site directory exists on the host PC.
>> >
>> > I have configured VPC 2004 and Windows XP Pro as both the host and
>> > guest OS and everything seems to be working. Networking appears to be
>> > OK as I can ping the host from the guest and vice. I have configured a
>> > Shared Folder in the VM console settings such that the drive "E" on the
>> > guest uses the host's drive "e:\inetpub".
>> >
>> > However, when I start the guest IIS manager and try to configure the
>> > home directory I can select "E:\inetpub" but the "OK" button is grayed
>> > out. The contents of ghe drive and directory are visble from the guest
>> > PC Explorer. Is it not possible to use a host PC directory as a web
>> > server directory?
>> >
>

>
> Perhaps that particular situation is IIS related bu tit seems to me a
> more gneral problem with configuing VPC to do what I want really to do.
>
> I have a web site on the second drive on the Host PC, Drive E. I want
> the IIS on the guest VM to access that so I have set up a shared folder
> Host/E: as Guest Drive E: . This seems to be fine and I access files on
> the Host drive from the Guest VM. However, when I try to configure the
> VM IIS to use drive e: as the root of the web site the OK button is
> grayed out and it will not select it. I can manually enter the root as
> "E:\inetpub' but the IIS doesn't actually access the data.
>
> Is there some prohibition on this configuration in the VM? Is the
> access across the vM interface not fast enough? I'm at a loss to
> understand.
>
> Curerntly I do development and testing on the Host machine. The web
> serverand browser are running on the Host. My ultimate intent is to run
> the web server in the VM machine accessing it from a web browser in the
> Host machine as if it were a remote server while still being able to
> edit the files in the Host machine. This way if something goes wrong on
> the server side I can simply restart the VM rather than rebooting the
> Host. If this is impractical running the browser in the VM is OK too, I
> can still simply restart the VM if anything goes wrong while retaining
> the ability to edit the server files on the Host.
>
> But its beginning to look like this isn't going to work.
> John
>
>
>
>
> David Wang [Msft] wrote:
>> At this point all your questions are with how to use IIS, so I suggest
>> searching and posting those question to microsoft.public.inetserver.iis
>>
>> Turn off the "Show Friendly HTTP Error" Feature of IE and describe the
>> exact
>> error message of the 403 error. It will indicate what you misconfigured
>> so
>> that you can fix it.
>>
>> --
>> //David
>> IIS
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights.
>> //
>>
>> "John" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
>> news:(email address - cut out)...
>> > Jonathan
>> >
>> > Thanks. I've been playing arond some more and find that I cannot access
>> > the web server even from a browser on the VM. The ONLY way I can get
>> > anything is to set the home directory of the default web server to
>> > c:\inetpub\wwwroot and then I can get the sample site --- I get the
>> > sample (Welcome to Windows XP Internet Services) but I also get and
>> > additional browser window with a 403 error in it.
>> >
>> > I've also tried copying one of my e:\inetpub sites to the c:\inetpub
>> > but I am unable to access it --- I get a 403 error.
>> >
>> > Any idea what's happening?
>> >
>> > John
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Jonathan Maltz [MS-MVP] wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> If your "E" shared folder is "E:\inetpub" on the host, then you would
>> >> only
>> >> set the home directory to "E:" (because E:\ would actually map to the
>> >> host's
>> >> E:\inetpub)
>> >>
>> >> Regarding whether or not this is possible, there's no reason that it
>> >> shouldn't be, but performance may be less than desirable
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> --Jonathan Maltz [Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - IIS, Virtual PC]
>> >> http://www.visualwin.com - A Windows Server 2003 visual, step-by-step
>> >> tutorial site :-)
>> >> http://vpc.visualwin.com - Does <insert OS name> work on VPC 2004?
>> >> Find
>> >> out
>> >> here
>> >> Only reply by newsgroup. I do not do technical support via email.
>> >> Any
>> >> emails I have not authorized are deleted before I see them.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "John" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
>> >> news:(email address - cut out)...
>> >> > I'm trying to configure a web server under Virtual PC where the
>> >> > default
>> >> > web site directory exists on the host PC.
>> >> >
>> >> > I have configured VPC 2004 and Windows XP Pro as both the host and
>> >> > guest OS and everything seems to be working. Networking appears to
>> >> > be
>> >> > OK as I can ping the host from the guest and vice. I have configured
>> >> > a
>> >> > Shared Folder in the VM console settings such that the drive "E" on
>> >> > the
>> >> > guest uses the host's drive "e:\inetpub".
>> >> >
>> >> > However, when I start the guest IIS manager and try to configure the
>> >> > home directory I can select "E:\inetpub" but the "OK" button is
>> >> > grayed
>> >> > out. The contents of ghe drive and directory are visble from the
>> >> > guest
>> >> > PC Explorer. Is it not possible to use a host PC directory as a web
>> >> > server directory?
>> >> >
>> >
>

> IIS supports website content that is on the local hard drive or remote
> network share.
>
> It is not clear to me how VPC "shared folder" is classified and how it is
> implemented. Because if it is like a mounted partition, then it won't work
> because the "E:" drive letter is only mounted for the current user and *not*
> the user that IIS runs with -- so IIS won't see a "E:" at all. It makes
> sense because just because one user configures E: to point to something does
> not mean another user gets access to the same E: -- what if the user used
> special username/password to access E: -- the other user should not
> automatically get access.
>
> Thus, I suggest you configure IIS to serve remote content the classic way -
> configure a UNC share on the Host for E:\inetpub, configure IIS in the Guest
> to use the UNC share of the host. No special knowledge about Virtual
> Machines anywhere.
>
> This URL has more info on how to configure UNC content correctly. It talks
> about IIS6 but same concepts apply to IIS 5.1 on XP Pro:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/webapp/iis/remstorg.mspx
>
> --
> //David
> IIS
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> //
>
> "John" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
> >
> > Perhaps that particular situation is IIS related bu tit seems to me a
> > more gneral problem with configuing VPC to do what I want really to do.
> >
> > I have a web site on the second drive on the Host PC, Drive E. I want
> > the IIS on the guest VM to access that so I have set up a shared folder
> > Host/E: as Guest Drive E: . This seems to be fine and I access files on
> > the Host drive from the Guest VM. However, when I try to configure the
> > VM IIS to use drive e: as the root of the web site the OK button is
> > grayed out and it will not select it. I can manually enter the root as
> > "E:\inetpub' but the IIS doesn't actually access the data.
> >
> > Is there some prohibition on this configuration in the VM? Is the
> > access across the vM interface not fast enough? I'm at a loss to
> > understand.
> >
> > Curerntly I do development and testing on the Host machine. The web
> > serverand browser are running on the Host. My ultimate intent is to run
> > the web server in the VM machine accessing it from a web browser in the
> > Host machine as if it were a remote server while still being able to
> > edit the files in the Host machine. This way if something goes wrong on
> > the server side I can simply restart the VM rather than rebooting the
> > Host. If this is impractical running the browser in the VM is OK too, I
> > can still simply restart the VM if anything goes wrong while retaining
> > the ability to edit the server files on the Host.
> >
> > But its beginning to look like this isn't going to work.
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > David Wang [Msft] wrote:
> >> At this point all your questions are with how to use IIS, so I suggest
> >> searching and posting those question to microsoft.public.inetserver.iis
> >>
> >> Turn off the "Show Friendly HTTP Error" Feature of IE and describe the
> >> exact
> >> error message of the 403 error. It will indicate what you misconfigured
> >> so
> >> that you can fix it.
> >>
> >> --
> >> //David
> >> IIS
> >> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> >> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> >> rights.
> >> //
> >>
> >> "John" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> >> news:(email address - cut out)...
> >> > Jonathan
> >> >
> >> > Thanks. I've been playing arond some more and find that I cannot access
> >> > the web server even from a browser on the VM. The ONLY way I can get
> >> > anything is to set the home directory of the default web server to
> >> > c:\inetpub\wwwroot and then I can get the sample site --- I get the
> >> > sample (Welcome to Windows XP Internet Services) but I also get and
> >> > additional browser window with a 403 error in it.
> >> >
> >> > I've also tried copying one of my e:\inetpub sites to the c:\inetpub
> >> > but I am unable to access it --- I get a 403 error.
> >> >
> >> > Any idea what's happening?
> >> >
> >> > John
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Jonathan Maltz [MS-MVP] wrote:
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> If your "E" shared folder is "E:\inetpub" on the host, then you would
> >> >> only
> >> >> set the home directory to "E:" (because E:\ would actually map to the
> >> >> host's
> >> >> E:\inetpub)
> >> >>
> >> >> Regarding whether or not this is possible, there's no reason that it
> >> >> shouldn't be, but performance may be less than desirable
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> --Jonathan Maltz [Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - IIS, Virtual PC]
> >> >> http://www.visualwin.com - A Windows Server 2003 visual, step-by-step
> >> >> tutorial site :-)
> >> >> http://vpc.visualwin.com - Does <insert OS name> work on VPC 2004?
> >> >> Find
> >> >> out
> >> >> here
> >> >> Only reply by newsgroup. I do not do technical support via email.
> >> >> Any
> >> >> emails I have not authorized are deleted before I see them.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> "John" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> >> >> news:(email address - cut out)...
> >> >> > I'm trying to configure a web server under Virtual PC where the
> >> >> > default
> >> >> > web site directory exists on the host PC.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I have configured VPC 2004 and Windows XP Pro as both the host and
> >> >> > guest OS and everything seems to be working. Networking appears to
> >> >> > be
> >> >> > OK as I can ping the host from the guest and vice. I have configured
> >> >> > a
> >> >> > Shared Folder in the VM console settings such that the drive "E" on
> >> >> > the
> >> >> > guest uses the host's drive "e:\inetpub".
> >> >> >
> >> >> > However, when I start the guest IIS manager and try to configure the
> >> >> > home directory I can select "E:\inetpub" but the "OK" button is
> >> >> > grayed
> >> >> > out. The contents of ghe drive and directory are visble from the
> >> >> > guest
> >> >> > PC Explorer. Is it not possible to use a host PC directory as a web
> >> >> > server directory?
> >> >> >
> >> >
> >