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Each Virtual Web Server can have one or more Virtual Directories. Virtual
directories are also created with the Internet Services Manager tool. A virtual
directory maps a virtual path, for instance /mydir on the Virtual Web Server with
IP address 196.1.1.1 on port 80 can map to a physical path c:\mydirectory. When
a user types (based on the example) http://196.1.1.1/mydir/mypage.htm in the
address bar of a browser and press <Enter> IIS determines that /mydir maps to
c:\mydirectory, then collects the file mypage.htm from c:\mydirectory and sends
it back to the browser, which then displays mypage.htm in the browser window.
Tip During the parsing process, the complete web site's log is parsed for every
site profile. Instead of having many site profiles for a single web site, rather
create another virtual web server. It can have the same IP Address but with a
different port (specify the port after the web site, e.g. :2010). This makes the log
files smaller which results in improved parsing performance.