How do I mark an application as a web application? (As opposed to a virtual directory.)

Question

I have a web application project that I published and it turns out it's not marked at the web hosts as a web application. I have other applications and they are all marked as web applications, and I can't find a difference between them and this one neither in web.config nor in the properties of the project. But I assume I am missing some difference because of the different result.

So, where in a Visual Studio Asp.net web application project do I mark the application as an actual web application?

(I searched for a solution, but most information on the internet seems to be directed at how to mark as a virtual directory, what's the difference between them at all, etc.)

Answer 1

It seems like publishing from Visual Studio is enough.

The problem with that specific application might have been a bug on the web hosting service of some sort.

So, again, the answer is: Visual Studio tells IIS to mark it as a web application. There is nothing (apparently) on the project's properties nor in web.config.