I have some extraneous asp.net folders in my DNN installation that are necessary for an addon to a DNN installation.

Problem:  I need to be able to access http://whatever.com/something/folder/file/default.aspx (this is a physical asp.net page in the something/folder/file/ path off the website root)

DNN takes that url and automatically routes it beack to /default.aspx instead of giving me the page that I want.  I've tried running 4.8.4 with frindly URLS off and on and it still performs the same way.

Question #1 - am I correct in assuming that this is the URLRewrite http module?

Question #2 - I do want friendly URLS on for all DNN related material but I dont want it to touch anything under the folder /something/ (there will end up being approx 300+ subfolders/pages in there when completed).  Is there a filter that can be added that basically says ignore the URL rewrite for folder X?

please check your Config\SiteUrls.config ,it sounds like you have a rule to rewrite any default.aspx paths - that is not the dnn default as the only default rules are

<RewriterRule>
   <LookFor>.*DesktopDefault.aspx(.*)</LookFor>
   <SendTo>~/Default.aspx$1</SendTo>
  </RewriterRule>
  <RewriterRule>
   <LookFor>.*EditModule.aspx(.*)</LookFor>
   <SendTo>~/Default.aspx$1</SendTo>
  </RewriterRule>
  <RewriterRule>
   <LookFor>.*/TabId/(\d+)(.*)/Logoff.aspx</LookFor>
   <SendTo>~/Admin/Security/Logoff.aspx?tabid=$1</SendTo>
  </RewriterRule>
  <RewriterRule>
   <LookFor>.*/TabId/(\d+)(.*)/rss.aspx</LookFor>
   <SendTo>~/rss.aspx?TabId=$1</SendTo>
  </RewriterRule>
  <RewriterRule>
   <LookFor>[^?]*/TabId/(\d+)(.*)</LookFor>
   <SendTo>~/Default.aspx?TabId=$1</SendTo>
  </RewriterRule>

Cathal

hard to say then, if the paths not been rewritten perhaps it's being redirected - i'd recommend installing httpfiddler http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/ to see if there is a hidden request.

Cathal