Hello guys,
Today I wanted to understand what exactly IIS does, when I call a SharePoint site and how URLs are redirected. So I went to the IIS manager and figured, that when I open my website I can see the following folder structure:
_app_bin
_controltemplates
_layouts
_login
_vti_bin
_vti_pvt
...
But when I map a network drive to my SharePoint-root-site, I get a totally different structure (the one what probably comes from the Database)
asf
Cache Profiles
data
DeviceChannels
FormServerTemplates
images
IWConvertedForms
knowledge
...
I would like to understand how this folder structure is created in IIS? Its not a virtual directory, right? Also there is no physical representation on the server HDD of this file tree. Can somebody explain how this works? I only want to get a short overview of what happens, when I navigate to the different SharePoint-URLs.
To summarize my questions:
Question 1: Where is the entry point of a SP-Website? In Apache this was my index.html, but how about SharePoint? There is only the web.config in the root, nothing else.
Question 2: How can the connect to network drive function work, even though I did not enabled any WebDAV service? Which service on the server is responsible for that?
Thanks,
David