Specify more than one directory in Web.Config's Location Path element

Question

In my ASP.NET\'s Web Config file I have the following location elements defined:

Answer 1

You cannot specify multiple elements in the path attribute, but you can make use of the configSource attribute.

For example, the following original web.config file:

Can be replaced by the following equivalent web.config, allow.config, and deny.config files:

web.config

allow.config

deny.config

The usefulness of this approach increases as the number of allow/deny rules in each section increases.