How to get IIS application name?

[Sharon]

Hi all,

Is it possible to programmatically get the IIS application
name at run time? If so, how?

A software package we bought requires some cache file
generated on the server, since we have multiple instance
of the application running on that server (pre-staging,
staging and production) so we need to configure the web to
use the correct cache folder at run time based on
application name.

here is the set up we try to accomplish:

cache file location

A.) C:/cachefolder/pre-staging
B.) C:/cachefolder/staging
C.) C:/cachefolder/production

(a config file will be located at the root of these
virtual directories)

[url]http://myserver/pre-staging[/url]
[url]http://myserver/staging[/url]
[url]http://myserver/production[/url]

so at run time, how can we get the application name so
that :

if appName = "pre-staging" then map to dir A
if appName = "staging" then map to dir B
if appName = "production" then map to dir C

TIA for any help points me to the right direction is
appreciated!

Best Regards,

Sharon

[Tom Kaminski [MVP]]

"Sharon" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:044c01c39743$99c7d880$a101280a@phx.gbl...

> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to programmatically get the IIS application
> name at run time? If so, how?
>
> A software package we bought requires some cache file
> generated on the server, since we have multiple instance
> of the application running on that server (pre-staging,
> staging and production) so we need to configure the web to
> use the correct cache folder at run time based on
> application name.
>
> here is the set up we try to accomplish:
>
> cache file location
>
> A.) C:/cachefolder/pre-staging
> B.) C:/cachefolder/staging
> C.) C:/cachefolder/production
>
> (a config file will be located at the root of these
> virtual directories)
>
> [url]http://myserver/pre-staging[/url]
> [url]http://myserver/staging[/url]
> [url]http://myserver/production[/url]
>
> so at run time, how can we get the application name so
> that :
>
> if appName = "pre-staging" then map to dir A
> if appName = "staging" then map to dir B
> if appName = "production" then map to dir C
>
> TIA for any help points me to the right direction is
> appreciated!

If you've got different paths, why not just parse out
Request.ServerVariables("URL") to figure out what script is running?

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