web.config inheritance

Is there any way to prevent web.config inheritance in nested web
applications ?
Here is the scenario, a 3rd party asp.net web application installed on an
asp.net intranet site :
http://intranet.company.org
http://intranet.company.org/3rdPartApp
both are configured as applications in IIS.
the subapp is not physcially installed beneath root app
Problems :
- the 3rd party app is completely unrelated ( functionally ) to the root
app and should never inherit any configuration settings but of course it
does.
- app relative items in the root web.config cause errors in the sub app
because of course they are app relative and the sub app can't find them -
ie. HttpHandlers
- successful installation of the 3rdparty app requires manual modification
of the web.config file to negate any problems caused by the root web.config
file
I thought that one solution might be to wrap the entire root app web.config
contents in a location tag to restrict it to just the root app - but I don't
see anyway to get this to work, location seems to only work for restricting
sub-app config with no way to restrict config to just the root app.
Gerrythis is a managed newsgroup right ?
"gerry" <germ@.canada.com> wrote in message
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> Is there any way to prevent web.config inheritance in nested web
> applications ?
> Here is the scenario, a 3rd party asp.net web application installed on an
> asp.net intranet site :
> http://intranet.company.org
> http://intranet.company.org/3rdPartApp
> both are configured as applications in IIS.
> the subapp is not physcially installed beneath root app
> Problems :
> - the 3rd party app is completely unrelated ( functionally ) to the root
> app and should never inherit any configuration settings but of course it
> does.
> - app relative items in the root web.config cause errors in the sub app
> because of course they are app relative and the sub app can't find them -
> ie. HttpHandlers
> - successful installation of the 3rdparty app requires manual
modification
> of the web.config file to negate any problems caused by the root
web.config
> file
> I thought that one solution might be to wrap the entire root app
web.config
> contents in a location tag to restrict it to just the root app - but I
don't
> see anyway to get this to work, location seems to only work for
restricting
> sub-app config with no way to restrict config to just the root app.
> Gerry
>
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Hi ,
in fact i did check to see that my posting id was set up correctly - and it
was.
however i did notice is that the valid domains that can be used has been
reduced to a fairly small set ( 5 i think ) where it used to be open to any
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I created a new id based on this new domain list and reposted my questions
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