Creating Web Applications

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Wezz Potter

Hi

I have a question about creating asp.net web applications.

When i create a new web application in the vs.net ide it asks for the
url of the web app, the next step asks how it should create the app

1. By network share
2. Using Frontpage Server Extensions

I can do neither as this is a remote server not running Frontpage
Extensions. Is there anyway to do this other than the 2 options above.

I've tried creating the app locally in iis, which is no problem, then
uploading the the files via ftp (the entire directory just to make sure
that i didn't miss any files), but i then get an error returned when i
try to browse to the web page.

Because this is a retome server i cannot debug the app by using
http://localhost... as i have no physical or terminal server access.

I know the server is a Windows 2000 advanced server fully patched up
with the .NET Framework V1.1

Any help would be very grateful

Regards
Wezz
 
Steve

Thanks for your response

I've tried developing locally using IIS and this works fine it's when
it comes to the deploy remotely stage that i have issues as uploading
the files via ftp is fine but when browsing to the pages i receive
errors but am unable to debug using http://localhost... as this is a
remote server.

Is there another way to deploy remotely that i am missing.

Regards
Wes
 
Deploying is as simple as copying the necessary files to the server and
putting them in their correct locations, as well as making sure that the web
application is configured correctly on the server. You didn't specify how
you deployed your project, other then using FTP as your transfer protocol.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.
 
Hi Kevin

All i have done is ftp the files if you could help me on what else
would be required that would be great

Regards
Wes
 
Don't know where to start. Again, you haven't described the steps you took
in deploying your app, only the transfer protocol you used.

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.
 
Kevin

Thankyou for taking time to reply

I have created the application locally it is basically a datagrid
listing users stored in an exsting SQL Server database allowing
creation, editing and deletion of the users.

I now want to move this to another machine where it will be hosted but
the machine is remote and i have no control over the system. The only
access i have to the system is FTP and HTTP.

When i connect via ftp to the server i have created a directory for
the Web Application and uploaded all the files in my project directory
but when i browse to the pages i get an error. As mentioned earlier i
can't debug this now as i have no access to the server to run the app
as localhost.

it is at this point that i don't know what else is needed to make the
web application work. I know the code is sound and the server is also
able to access the SQL Server as i can access it using ASP3 and ADO as
opposed to using .net and ado.net But as i am trying to use .net for
everything asp3 is not an option.

Many Thanks

Wezz
 
Hi Wezz,

It sounds like you may be running into a web server configuration issue. The
virtual directory that is the root of your Applicaton must be configured as
an Application in IIS. The \bin folder must reside directly under that root
folder. Your DLLs go in there. The web.config file goes in the root folder
of the Application. Your ASPX pages can be anywhere under the root.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.
 
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