Does anyone know how to link templates and edit files outside of the wwwroot directory? I.E. A virtual directory contains files outside of the wwroot but should use the same template as those files in the www directory

you may have to create a new site for those files and copy the Templates folder to that directory. and when ever you apply new changes to the other site; copy the template to the new site and apply the changes to it. there also meybe a better way of doing this too.