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Understanding physical and virtual paths
After using UltraDev to upload your files to a remote server, all your files end up in a folder in the server's local directory tree. For example, on a server running Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), the path to your home page could be:
c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\accounts\users\jsmith\index.htm
This path is known as the "physical" path to your file.
The URL to open your file, however, does not use the physical path. It uses the name of the server or domain followed by a virtual path, such as:
www.plutoserve.com/jsmith/index.htm
The virtual path, /jsmith/index.htm, is a kind of shortcut for the physical path, c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\accounts\users\jsmith\index.htm.
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