Although you can theoretically create a new Web site under a new virtual root (a child path under your default Web server) this presents a big problem: the new Web site would have to be aware of this path offset when referring to itself with absolute or relative paths. The advantage of having a new and independent virtual server is that it only recognizes its own virtual roots and paths.

In other words, in any of your virtual folders in the default web server, a path of "/images/..." would point to the root of your Webserver's (wwwroot) folder and not the root of the virtual folder!

While you cannot create a new virtual server through MMC, the ability to create multiple virtual servers is only hidden, not stripped out completely. Steven M. Cohn explains how...and it works.

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