How to web deploy to a virtual directory or web application in IIS and Visual Studio 2013

by Steve French in Uncategorized on December 12, 2014

For whatever reason you cannot directly deploy (using Visual Studio WebDeploy) to a virtual directory in IIS.  This threw me for a bit until I created both the virtual directory, a separate website, and pointed them both to the same directory.  Then you just deploy to the otherwise unused website, and your web application shows up in your virtual directory