ASP Best Practices

Organizing Application Directories and Files

This section provides a model for storage structure and access permissions for ASP applications. Using this model will help you establish consistency, security, and ease of maintenance.

The organization and attributes given to the directories and files in the list below are more important than the names used.

/Application_Name
  Default.htm
  Global.asa 

/Classes

/Content

  /ASP
    *.asp

  /HTM
    *.htm

  /Images

  /Media

  /Themes

/Data (not in site directory)

/DLL (not in site directory)
*.dll

/Helper_Files (not in site directory)

See the following:

Application Root Directory
Default.htm, Default.asp
Global.asa
/Classes
/Content
/ASP
/HTM
/Images
/Media
/Themes
/Data
/DLLs
Helper Files