Specify more than one directory in Web.Config's Location Path element

Question

In my ASP.NET\'s Web Config file I have the following location elements defined:

Answer 1

sorry, but path property doesn't allow to use "," so you must write tag for all path, Or you can create web.config in each directory.

Answer 2

it is possible to set path to a specific folder. For example we have some aspx pages:

• /data/pages/form1.aspx
• /data/pages/form2.aspx
• /data/pages/form3.aspx

By creating this rule in web.config:

<location path="data/pages">
    <system.webServer>
        <httpProtocol>
            <customHeaders>
                <remove name="X-Frame-Options" />
                <add name="X-Frame-Options" value="SAMEORIGIN" />
            </customHeaders>
        </httpProtocol>
    </system.webServer>
</location>

All resources in data/pages will be affected.

Answer 3

I had a similar issue. so went with the normal way of creating separate tags, no other BETTER solution.

Answer 4

You cannot specify multiple elements in the path attribute, but you can make use of the configSource attribute.

For example, the following original web.config file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
  <location path="form1.aspx">
    <system.web>
      <authorization>
        <allow users="*"/>
      </authorization>
    </system.web>
  </location>
  <location path="form2.aspx">
    <system.web>
      <authorization>
        <allow users="*"/>
      </authorization>
    </system.web>
  </location>
  <location path="form3.aspx">
    <system.web>
      <authorization>
        <allow users="*"/>
      </authorization>
    </system.web>
  </location>
  <location path="form4.aspx">
    <system.web>
      <authorization>
        <deny users="*"/>
      </authorization>
    </system.web>
  </location>
  <location path="form5.aspx">
    <system.web>
      <authorization>
        <deny users="*"/>
      </authorization>
    </system.web>
  </location>
  <location path="form6.aspx">
    <system.web>
      <authorization>
        <deny users="*"/>
      </authorization>
    </system.web>
  </location>
</configuration>

Can be replaced by the following equivalent web.config, allow.config, and deny.config files:

web.config

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
  <location path="form1.aspx">
    <system.web>
      <authorization configSource="allow.config" />
    </system.web>
  </location>
  <location path="form2.aspx">
    <system.web>
      <authorization configSource="allow.config" />
    </system.web>
  </location>
  <location path="form3.aspx">
    <system.web>
      <authorization configSource="allow.config" />
    </system.web>
  </location>
  <location path="form4.aspx">
    <system.web>
      <authorization configSource="deny.config" />
    </system.web>
  </location>
  <location path="form5.aspx">
    <system.web>
      <authorization configSource="deny.config" />
    </system.web>
  </location>
  <location path="form6.aspx">
    <system.web>
      <authorization configSource="deny.config" />
    </system.web>
  </location>
</configuration>

allow.config

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<authorization>
  <allow users="*"/>
</authorization>

deny.config

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<authorization>
  <deny users="*"/>
</authorization>

The usefulness of this approach increases as the number of allow/deny rules in each section increases.