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Instructor
Notes
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This slide returns
to an architectural topic of how pages are stored and retrieved for a WSS
site.
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All pages in a WSS
are initially retrieved from a .aspx page definition file that lives on the
file system of the front-end Web server. However, these pages should be
broken out into two different categories: site pages and application pages.
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While site pages are
initially stored in an uncustomized format and retrieve from the front end
Web server, they support customization. When a site page is customized with a
tool such as the SharePoint Designer, the customized .aspx file is written
into the content database.
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Application pages
are stored in the _layouts directory (e.g. setting.aspx) and are accessible
to all WSS sites within the farm. They do not support customization and are
never stored in the content database.
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