In a shared Web hosting environment, you can enable users to define new ASP applications by using FrontPage 2000. You can use FrontPage 2000 to create new global.asa files and ASP applications. FrontPage stores the definitions of these new applications in the FrontPage services.cnf file in the /_vti_pvt subdirectory.
Chili!Soft ASP automatically looks for the services.cnf file in the /_vti_pvt subdirectory, and treats the entries it finds in this file as ASP applications. Any applications defined in the services.cnf file are dynamically recognized by Chili!Soft ASP, and do not require the ASP Server to be restarted. Chili!Soft ASP looks for this filename in the document root directory of the Web server (and each Virtual Host).
Entries in the services.cnf file use the following format:
/[appname] = "/path/to/app/home/directory"
If the services.cnf file and the /_vti_pvt subdirectory appear in the document root directory of a Virtual Host, then the ASP applications are only be applied to that Virtual Host, and not to others.
There are two limitations on applications defined in the services.cnf file. First, the files in the application must be located within the document root directory of the Web server (or Virtual Host). Second, the directory containing the global.asa file cannot be below the top-level directory of the Web server (or virtual host) document root. For more information about ASP applications and the global.asa file, see "Configuring ASP Applications" in this chapter.
See also:
Adding an ASP Application in this chapter
Defining Application in a Shared Evironment in this chapter
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