How to share files between different web application

Question

I have some images and PDFs which has to be shared between different web applications hosted on same IIS.
I have tried by creating a separate virtual directory and used the path in both applications.

Is there any other better way of doing this?

Answer 1

If it's for a website, is there a reason you couldn't just directly reference them through http? So on Domain 1:

<a href="domain1/doc1.pdf">Document 1 on domain 1</a>

And then on your second domain (domain 2):

<a href="domain1/doc1.pdf">Document 1 on domain 2</a>

Either way, are there so many of these resources that it's worth the trouble not to just upload separately to each app? That way you wouldn't be creating dependencies.