Should I put my ASP.NET websites in the wwwroot folder?

Question

I have a number of websites that run under IIS on a single machine.

Should I put these websites inside of the C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\ folder or inside the C:\\inetpub

Answer 1

There is no definitive answer but

• C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Website1\
• C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Website2\

are the standard locations for web sites. For example c:\inetpub\ftproot could be used to host an FTP site.