I have my web server set up to have a production site and a demo site, in IIS Manager it looks like the following.
Sites
....\Production
.....\Demo
The websites are set up as www.company.com, and demo.company.com, each pointing to each of the directories above.
The Default Website App is associated with the production site. I created a new site under sites called Demo (not a subsite of the default web site).
Basically the same thing, with separate connection strings pointing to correct databases. In IIS if I explore each application, it goes to the correct folders. Application Settings are Connection strings, etc seem to all pointing to the Right DBs and values, etc. I don't see any place where it may be inheriting from the base site, but it looks like this is what is happening. How can this happen? How can I stop this from happening? If more detail is needed, please ask and I will provide.