Tuesday, 17 March 2015

Adding ASP.NET pages to a SharePoint Installation


SharePoint runs under IIS, if you open IIS Manager on a SharePoint server you will see a typical SharePoint site, eg:




The first thing we need to do is add an application to hold our ASP.NET pages - this needs to be mapped to a folder on the server where we are going to store the ASP.NET files.

The name of the virtual directory must be unique and not match any existing folder, or any site in the SharePoint system.   (For example, we might have our SharePoint site at http://intranet and a sub-site at http://intranet/sales - so even though the folder "sales" does not occur in the IIS tree, we cannot use "Sales" as the name of our virtual directory.)

To create an application

  • Create (or select) a folder on the server to hold the ASP.NET files:


New folder "E:\ASP-Pages" created to contain my ASP.NET files
  • In IIS manager, right click the site and "Add Application":

     




  • Give the new Application a name (Alias) - which must not conflict with any URL currently in use, and connect it to the new folder created above:




  • Click "OK"







  • Verify the virtual directory is set up correctly by creating a simple HTML page in the folder, eg test.htm:
     
<HTML>
<BODY>
Hello World!
</BODY>
</HTML>






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  • If the folder is correctly connected you should be able to open the test page in a browser by browsing to the SharePoint site and adding the new folder name and test page:

     





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