PRB: Cannot Create Disk-Based Web Application in InetPub\WWWRoot

From the File menu, select New Project Wizard. When you specify InetPub\WWWRoot in the Location text box of the first dialog box, a new Web is not created. The wizard continues through all the other steps as if this is a valid path; however, after you finish the wizard, the following error appears: You cannot configure C:\InetPub\wwwroot\<projectname><projectname>_Local as a Microsoft FrontPage Web because the directory C:\InetPub\wwwroot above is already configured as a FrontPage Web. You can open that Web instead.

Do not use InetPub\WWWRoot folder as the Location specified in the New Project wizard.

This behavior is by design.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. From the File menu, click New Project to create a new Web project.
2. In the New Project dialog box, in the Location text box, type or browse to C:\InetPub\WWWRoot. You should see C:\InetPub\WWWRoot\<projectname> as the path in the Location text box.
3. Finish the wizard using appropriate and valid responses.

The error will occur at this point, and the project will not be created.

NOTE: This location simply specifies to where the project copies a file when the user issues a Get Working Copy, Get Latest Version, Check Out, or opens a file read Only on a project file. It is not recommended that you place the files that you are editing into your InetPub\WWWRoot folder. This location is where the product will be allowing the developer to edit the files from, and it is advisable to put this work folder in a location that is not browsable by users. This location is for files-in-work, not for the final copy of files.

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