Server.MapPath does not return the right physical path mapped to a virtual directory in Web-App subfolder

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I create a web site and mapped it to the

D:\MyWebApp

and in Plugins sub directory I create a virtual directory and mapped it to

D:\Project\Presentation\Web\Accounting

.
the problem is when I want to get the physical path of the phisical path of http://localhost/Plugins/Accounting I get wrong result.

both

Server.MapPath("~/Plugins/Accounting") and Server.MapPath("/Plugins/Accounting")

returns

'D:\MyWebApp\Plugins\Accounting'

that does not exist physically. I want to get

D:\Project\Presentation\Web\Accounting

.
I search for it and just get below lines:

Server.MapPath(".") returns the current physical directory of the file (e.g. aspx) being executed
Server.MapPath("..") returns the parent directory
Server.MapPath("~") returns the physical path to the root of the application
Server.MapPath("/") returns the physical path to the root of the domain name (is not necessarily the same as the root of the application)

but in my case (virtual directory in a subfolder), it's not work !!!
I use IIS8 and Asp.Net-Mvc 4 and C#4.
how can I do this?

Posted 3-Jul-13 18:26pm

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Tom Laperre 21-Jan-15 9:27am

Did you find a solution for this, I need to do the same thing. The idee is to get folder-file content from a virtual directory other then de web application folder...?

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2013-07-29T14:44:00

Server.MapPath doesn't resolve to anything that starts with "http://". It always returns a fully qualified absolute or relative path on disk. This is the "physical path". What you're referring to is a virtual or logical path, not physical. This is something that Server.MapPath will not do.

PratapReddyP · Answer 2 · 2013-07-29T12:34:00

Irrespective of version of MVC and IIS, Server.MapPath will always points to root folder of Application. I dont know whats the requirement behind maintaining the plugins in seperate folder, but its not a good practice to maintain different parts of a solution, espicially when you try to reffer it physically.

Server.MapPath does not return the right physical path mapped to a virtual directory in Web-App subfolder

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