No-touch deployment [no response]...

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Terry Mulvany

Greeting All,

OK I keep reading about no-touch deployment so I visited
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...-TouchDeploymentInNETFramework.asp?frame=true
downloaded the sample, and I'll be damned if everything went Ok up until the final step to test by hitting http://localhost/TaskMgmtWS/TaskManagement.exe but what I get is the dreaded 'The page cannot be found'.

That app is in a configured Virtual Directory [default settings] in IIS [on Windows 2K Advanced Server] called TaskMgmtWS and the Release builds of TasksWS.dll and TaskManagement.exe are in the folder. When folder browsing is turned on I can even see the exe but I get the same error when I click it. Also, opening the app directly [double click physical file in Windows] works fine. I know this is something simple and I'm gonna be embarrassed by the fix for it.

Thanks in advance everyone.
 
You probably have URLScan tool installed on the server. URLScan by default
automatically blocks HTTP requests that reference executables.

Here I describe how to get rid of that problem:

http://www.code-magazine.com/article.aspx?quickid=0307061

Hector Correa

Greeting All,

OK I keep reading about no-touch deployment so I visited
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbtchNo-TouchDeplo
ymentInNETFramework.asp?frame=true
downloaded the sample, and I'll be damned if everything went Ok up until the
final step to test by hitting http://localhost/TaskMgmtWS/TaskManagement.exe
but what I get is the dreaded 'The page cannot be found'.

That app is in a configured Virtual Directory [default settings] in IIS [on
Windows 2K Advanced Server] called TaskMgmtWS and the Release builds of
TasksWS.dll and TaskManagement.exe are in the folder. When folder browsing
is turned on I can even see the exe but I get the same error when I click
it. Also, opening the app directly [double click physical file in Windows]
works fine. I know this is something simple and I'm gonna be embarrassed by
the fix for it.

Thanks in advance everyone.
 
It is the settings of IIS, you've installed the IIS lockdown tool, or the URLscan utility. In any case, the problem can be corrected in the
%windir%\system32\inetserv\urlscan\urlscan.ini file, it is set up so that it does not allow EXEs to be downloaded.
I removed it from my computer, but if I remember correctly, it should be in the AllowExtensions section, or not be in the DenyExtensions section of the file. Do a bit of research and you should be able to allow EXEs to be downloaded.


Greeting All,

OK I keep reading about no-touch deployment so I visited
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...-TouchDeploymentInNETFramework.asp?frame=true
downloaded the sample, and I'll be damned if everything went Ok up until the final step to test by hitting http://localhost/TaskMgmtWS/TaskManagement.exe but what I get is the dreaded 'The page cannot be found'.

That app is in a configured Virtual Directory [default settings] in IIS [on Windows 2K Advanced Server] called TaskMgmtWS and the Release builds of TasksWS.dll and TaskManagement.exe are in the folder. When folder browsing is turned on I can even see the exe but I get the same error when I click it. Also, opening the app directly [double click physical file in Windows] works fine. I know this is something simple and I'm gonna be embarrassed by the fix for it.

Thanks in advance everyone.
 
Well I'm not *that* embarrassed but I should have known... thank you so much
both Hector and Chris!
 
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