Vagrant IIS Synced Folder

[John S]

I've read some older threads about IIS not working with mapped drives so I can't use the synced folder option. I'm just wondering what people do now to host IIS site files on a windows guest with synced files?

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

So, sometimes webservers or some apps need tome info from the filesystem that shared folder doesn't have.

This cause issues on things like you update software on the dev machine over a IDE but the website on the VM doesn't show the updates.

This is not a vagrant issue.

vagrant is a wrapper around tech, if the tech combination and the task have issues vagrant will inherit them.

So, why note take one these approach:

A

- Get something without vagrant first, then make it work in that way in vagrant

B

- Get something working with vagrant ie Windows + IIS machine and a normal fs for IIS

- Then test one change at the time and see what works.

In that way you will find out what breaks the workflow.

Alvaro.