Deploying Crystal Reports 2008 on a website other than the default website

Hi,
We have an ASP.NET 2003 web application using CR 2008 as reporting tool.
To deploy the application, we are using the CR 2008 mergemodules.
If the application is installed into the default website, this works fine, but if another website is selected, the mergemodule still installs CR 2008 to the default website.
To overcome this problem, the crystalreportviewers12 virtual directory has to be created in the selected website.
But if the application is installed directly into the website, and not into a virtual directory of the website, problems occur, like images not showing up.
I would like to know if there exists documentation regarding deployment into websites, other than the default website and what configurations have to be done to make it work.
Best regards,
Ângelo Vilela

See the following articles;
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/a0437ea8-97d2-2b10-2795-c202a76a5e80
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/50aa68c0-82dd-2b10-42bf-e5502b45cd3a
Also, the developer help files contain more info:
https://boc.sdn.sap.com/developer/library
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