A virtual directory is a URL defined on a Web server that refers to a physical directory on the server file system. For example, on a Windows-based system, the URL http://myserver/caspdoc might refer to a physical directory having the path name c:\my documents\caspdoc. When a browser requests the URL for a virtual directory, the Web server returns the content contained in the physical directory to which it refers.
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