A company LAN, or local area network, can house a private Internet-like environment called an intranet. The intranet is basically a set of HTML pages relating to internal company business, for employee's eyes only, and is not available to the Internet. If access to or from the Internet is provided, it will be through a firewall gateway that will require a username and password. In this case the intranet becomes an extranet. In short, an extranet is the extension of an intranet to include public access.
An extranet can allow public access to employees, customers, clients or partners. The extranet uses Internet protocols so users can navigate with a browser, but resides on the company's private server rather than on a public Internet server. Extranet access from the Internet can be controlled through various architectures that are password or username specific. In other words, areas of the extranet will be available according to password credentials. This limits users to extranet pages relevant to the business they might be conducting, while keeping other areas of the extranet private and secure.
An extranet requires security and privacy. These can include firewall server management, the issuance and use of digital certificates or similar means of user authentication, encryption of messages, and the use of virtual private networks (VPNs) that tunnel through the public network.
Error: The file web.sitemap required by XmlSiteMapProvider does not exist.
This error occurs if XmlSiteMapProvider does not find web.sitemap file. By default it looks for this file in the root of the website therefore if you add web.sitemap file in your website you are likly to get this error.
So to overcome this error simple move web.sitemap file in the root of website if its not in the root. Or if you dont want to have web.sitemap file in the root of website, you can reconfigure XmlSiteMapProvider by adding it in the web.config file of your website.Like...
< siteMap defaultProvider="XmlSiteMapProvider" enabled="true" >
< providers >
< clear/ >
< add name="XmlSiteMapProvider"
type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider, System.Web,Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
siteMapFile="~/Resource/web.sitemap"
securityTrimmingEnabled="true"/ >
< /providers >
< /siteMap >
Note : You can ste new path of your we.sitemap in the siteMapFile attribute.
So to overcome this error simple move web.sitemap file in the root of website if its not in the root. Or if you dont want to have web.sitemap file in the root of website, you can reconfigure XmlSiteMapProvider by adding it in the web.config file of your website.Like...
< siteMap defaultProvider="XmlSiteMapProvider" enabled="true" >
< providers >
< clear/ >
< add name="XmlSiteMapProvider"
type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider, System.Web,Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
siteMapFile="~/Resource/web.sitemap"
securityTrimmingEnabled="true"/ >
< /providers >
< /siteMap >
Note : You can ste new path of your we.sitemap in the siteMapFile attribute.
