FTP Sites vs Sites in IIS 7.0
- by NealWalters
We have one FTP site set up (and working) basically like the instructions here:
http://www.iis.net/learn/publish/using-the-ftp-service/creating-a-new-ftp-site-in-iis-7
It shows up under "Sites" and then the name of our FTP Site.
However, above "Sites" (in the left navigation tree view), we see a node called "FTP Sites". When we click on it, it says "FTP Management is provided by IIS 6.0".
Can someone give me the big picture of why this node appears, and why IIS 6 is involved? Is is some backward compatible feature? I didn't build these machines, so don't know the reasoning of what was done before I arrived on the scene.
Also, is the tree view icon for websites and FTP sites the same?