IIS7 Settings File Locations

Question

Where does IIS7 saves its configuration for each virtual directory  application and its physical path    Is it an XML file  And if so  will editing this XML file affect the IIS configuration  after restarting

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It sounds like you re looking for applicationHost config  which is located in C  Windows System32 inetsrv config   Yes  it s an XML file  and yes  editing the file by hand will affect the IIS config after a restart  You can think of IIS Manager as a GUI front-end for editing applicationHost config and web config

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Also check this answer from here  Cannot manually edit applicationhost config     The answer is simple  if not that obvious  win2008 is 64bit  notepad     is 32bit  When you navigate to Windows System32 inetsrv config using   explorer you are using a 64bit program to find the file  When you open   the file using using notepad   you are trying to open it using a 32bit   program  The confusion occurs because  rather than telling you that   this is what you are doing  windows allows you to open the file but   when you save it the file s path is transparently mapped to   Windows SysWOW64 inetsrv Config       So in practice what happens is you open applicationhost config using   notepad    make a change  save the file  but rather than overwriting   the original you are saving a 32bit copy of it in   Windows SysWOW64 inetsrv Config  therefore you are not making changes   to the version that is actually used by IIS  If you navigate to the   Windows SysWOW64 inetsrv Config you will find the file you just saved       How to get around this  Simple - use a 64bit text editor  such as the   normal notepad that ships with windows

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