Website IIS applications

Navigate to: Main Menu > Websites > Select a website > Click the IIS applications tab.

This tool allows you to convert specific sub-folders within your website into independent IIS Applications. This is necessary if you are hosting a separate project (like a blog, a forum, or an API) inside a sub-directory (e.g., yoursite.com/blog) that requires its own unique web.config file.

How to Add an Application

1. Create the Folder: First, use the File manager or FTP to create the physical folder on your server (e.g., create a folder named 'api').
2. Convert: Return to this tab and click ADD NEW IIS APPLICATION.
3. Select Path: In the dialog box, select your new folder from the Path dropdown menu and click CONVERT.

Important Technical Limitations

Because these sub-applications run inside the same worker process as your main website, they share the same Application Pool. This imposes specific constraints:

• Same .NET Version: You cannot run the main site on .NET Framework 4.8 and a sub-application on .NET Core (or vice versa). They must target the same framework version.
• Shared Resources: All applications share the memory and CPU quotas assigned to the main hosting plan.

Management

To revert a sub-application back to a standard folder, click the Delete icon (X) next to its path. This removes the IIS application configuration but does not delete the actual files.