Creating Virtual Directories

[michaelmuller]

I'm building an application that will host many subdomains under one domain.
Each subdomain will be created on the fly by a user for demo purposes.

Upon creation of a subdomain I need to create a Virtual Directory under the
one main domain that points to another drive on the server, likely a SAN drive
(ie; e:\drives\[subdomainname])

I've been monkeying around a little with adsutil.vbs and mkwebdir.vbs to no
effect. I'm guessing I have to have the web server run this as an admin?

Any tips? Has anyone done any of these kinds of things in CF?

Thanks,

[The ScareCrow]

I have not had the need to do this as yet, but have research a bit.

You can access the IIS admin objects by using the com object.

Here are a couple of links (although not in cf)
[url]http://www.sconklin.com/default.cfm?fuseaction=codelib.dsp_virdir[/url]

I have seen your other post about this which also included something about
db's (sql server).
This can all be done using stored procedures.

Ken

[michaelmuller]

Ken,

Quite excellent. I'll dig into this.

But it underscores a point. It would be great for MM (or someone) to create a
set of tools for doing this in CF directly. If CF is primarily a Windows
platform application server, there should be some free hooks in the toolkit for
doing some simple stuff like this. It's probably just a matter of wrapping
some of the COM objects in CFCs or UDFs.

And thanks for the tip about stored procedures. I can pass parameters to them,
such as the un/pw to use. Sure, that makes sense. Seems simple once you're on
the right track. I've just never done either of these things. I'm glad I'm
finally graduating away from Access. It was very good to me for a long time,
but I'm looking forward to the power and speed.

Thanks again. I'll post a follow-up if I have questions.

[The ScareCrow]

You could also look at this in 2 ways.

1.
Supply the user with a user interface to do this, combination of cf and sql
server stored procedures

2.
All handled by the backend, in this case I would most probably look at
creating a dts package in sql server and just execute this dts package through
the cf page.

Ken

[michaelmuller]

ScareCrow,

So, I'm back on this task. What would you suggest for implementing these ADSI
in CF? Are the objects the ADSI scripts touch exposed to CF in any way, ie;
GetObject("IIS://" & sComputer & "/W3svc/1")?

If you had to do this, how would you start?

<%
sComputer ="localhost"
sPhyDir = "c:\adsi"
sVirDir = "ADSITest"

'Get Default Web Site Object
set websvc = GetObject("IIS://" & sComputer & "/W3svc/1")

'Verify by printing out ServerComment
Response.Write "Comment = " & websvc.ServerComment & "<br>"

'Get root of Default Web Site
set vRoot = websvc.GetObject("IIsWebVirtualDir", "Root")

'Get Class Definition of virtual directory
Set ClassDefinition = GetObject(vRoot.Schema)

'Get list of mandatory properties
asMustHaves = ClassDefinition.MandatoryProperties

'Get list of optional properties
asMayHaves = ClassDefinition.OptionalProperties

i=1
%>

[michaelmuller]

Actually, now that I've done a little research, LINKD.EXE is an amazing little
utility. Works at the NTSC level and IIS does respond. Here's an article about
how it works, and the link to the utility.

[url]http://www.pyeung.com/pages/win2k/hardlinks.html[/url]


[url]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee[/url]
-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en

junction.exe would probably have worked too, but the page everyone links to is
no longer there, and I'd rather use a utility MS made to use on a MS box if
it's free and I can do it.