MVC area and virtual folders

Question

I'd like the ability to add a sub "folder" to an MVC area. For instance, I have an area

~/areas/Support

And, in some classic ASP code, I need to refer to an include file

<!-- #include virtual="/Support/_inc/myinclude.asp"-->

Just for grins I tried including a virtual folder /support that points to this virtual folder, but that, of course, overrides the MVC route and keeps the MVC stuff from executing.

Suggestions?

Answer 1

I've found a solution that seems somewhat unconventional, but is working so far.

Under my test environment (IIS7.5 on Win7 Ultimate 64, ASP.NET MVC2), I edited the config file

c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config

and added virtual folders like so

<virtualDirectory path="/Support/_inc" physicalPath="C:\websites\virt\...\support\_inc" />
<virtualDirectory path="/support/man" physicalPath="c:\websites\http\...\support\man" />
<virtualDirectory path="/support/man/docs" physicalPath="c:\websites\virt\...\support\man\docs" />
<virtualDirectory path="/Support/docs" physicalPath="C:\websites\virt\...\support\docs" />
<virtualDirectory path="/Support/man/_inc" physicalPath="C:\websites\virt\...\support\man\_inc" />

since there is no virtual folder (or real folder, for that matter) at /support, MVC routes that to the /Areas/Support... items. Anything that matches the virtual folders in the application config, however, seem to be routed by IIS before ASP.NET takes over, so they are correctly handled by ASP.

Interesting.