WebService - putting on third party hosted site and how?

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Hi all,

I am creating my first mobile app, and I am using a web service. It's all
working great on my local machine. However, I want to stick it out on the
net so that we can demo the app at the client site. My company website is
hosted by a third party. Is it possible to stick the webservice files out on
their server and have this work? I'm new at this stuff, so any help is
greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Erin
 
Erin,

That depends on the capabilities of your hosting provider. If they have IIS
and .Net installed on their servers and IIS is reachable from the Internet,
then this should be possible. You'll need to coodinate with your hosting
provider.
Many hosting providers charge extra for .Net support and all of them
have limits on the amount of space you can consume on their servers.

-Darren Shaffer
 
I do have .NET and IIS with my hosting provider...I'll put in a call to them
and see what shakes out. I can create a Virtual Directory, but I get an
"Unauthorized to view this page" when I try to access it.

Thanks,
Erin
 
That might mean they have disabled the .asmx extension or that your newly
created virtual directory does not allow anonymous access. Can you access a
regular (.htm) page placed into the same directory? What about .asp?
 
Yeah, I accessed an .asp page no problem. The service seems to be working
with the .asp extension, which is weird to me (I thought the webservice had
to have the .asmx extension to work but I guess it's just XML so maybe that's
why it doesn't matter?) I got the webservice to actually work, so I think
I'm good to go.

Thanks.
 
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