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Great answer. Virtual paths - of course!
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I have a server 2003 box running IIS6.<br />
<b>I have enabled parent paths.<br />
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I have the following path on the server with some css styles I want to share between websites:<br />
D:\inetpub\wwwroot\quality<wbr />1st\css<br />
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One website site root is located at:<br />
D:\inetpub\wwwroot\quality<wbr />1st\head\w<wbr />ww<br />
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Another site root is located at:<br />
D:\inetpub\wwwroot\quality<wbr />1st\branch<wbr />\www<br />
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An example include from one of my forms held at either of the two root looks like this:<br />
&lt;link href=&quot;../../css/qualityfir<wbr />st.css&quot; rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; type=&quot;text/css&quot;/&gt;<br />
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Testing on my development machine (win 7 IIS7) using localhost works fine - on the server it doesn't error but it is not loading the css from 'above' the site root.
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I have a server 2003 box running IIS6.
I have enabled parent paths.

I have the following path on the server with some css styles I want to share between websites:
D:\inetpub\wwwroot\quality1st\css

One website site root is located at:
D:\inetpub\wwwroot\quality1st\head\www

Another site root is located at:
D:\inetpub\wwwroot\quality1st\branch\www

An example include from one of my forms held at either of the two root looks like this:
<link href="../../css/qualityfirst.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>

Testing on my development machine (win 7 IIS7) using localhost works fine - on the server it doesn't error but it is not loading the css from 'above' the site root.

IIs 6 Parent paths - going beyond root

IIS is Internet Information Services, the web server included with Windows Server operating systems. All current versions are built on a modular architecture; modules can be added or removed individually so that those required for specific functionality are installed. The full installation of IIS includes HTTP, security, content, compression, caching, logging and diagnostics.

Microsoft IIS Web Server

Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft’s first server-side engine for dynamic web pages. ASP’s support of the Component Object Model (COM) enables it to access and use compiled libraries such as DLLs. It has been superseded by ASP.NET, but will be supported by Internet Information Services (IIS) through at least 2022.

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).