I was wondering if someone could suggest the possible cause of a problem I am having when deploying the site...

Everything loads up properly except the default page is totally blank. All the other pages work as expected. I used the c# tool to load my database and all the identities seem to have been maintained. I tried changing the aspnet_Applications table to

/ /
/membername /membername

and a bunch of other combinations. I am using www.webhost4life.com to host the site. The site does fully work on my personal pc under IIS.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

- Greg

I've had the same problem with webhost4life. Submit a trouble ticket and they'll get the .net application configured correctly for your root folder.

I submitted the ticket and they instructed me to add change the .net version as it defaults to 1.1 not 2.0. Did that and now it works ok the msite4now.com subdomain but my domain is still blank any more ideas?

- Greg

I think you just need to go one more round with them.

They're very helpful but sometimes it takes a couple ticket exchanges to work out an issue like this. Make sure you tell them that it's the root folder that's having the problems.

Did you set up your domain pointers so they correctly aim at your site?

Which Registrar are you using?

This site will show if your domain is correctly pointing at WebHost4Life, and then the only remaining config items are to point your domain to the right server withing the WebHost4Life network:
http://www.whois.sc/

This link has video tutorials showing you how to set this up:
http://www.webhost4life.com/kb/question.php?qstId=140

englere yes the domain is pointing correctly that was never an issue.

Here is where I am at... If I create a subfolder in the root directory and link it as a virtual directory and then copy the site inside and finally update the application table in the data base to

Application LoweredApplication
"/" "/"
"/subfolder" "/subfolder"

the site will work great. But if i change the IIS path to that subfolder it breaks agian. So as a temp solution I am going to put a redirect from www.mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com/subfolder to make the site work. But this is not the way it is suppose to work. As I would prefer the site to work from the root directory. The help desk mentioned changing the application table in the database to "/" but there is already an entry for that and it is a unique key. Should i just remove the second entry?

- Greg

Yes, I think you need to remove the lowered application for it to work correctly. I'm pretty sure you can't nest applications.

Thank you all for the help the site is now up and running. What I did was set it up in a sub director called website and configure the database application paths. The site worked great then I placed a Default.aspx file in the root directory that does a 301 redirect to the sub-folder. From what I've read this is good SEO practice as it is friendly and does not split your page rankings when people link to you (i.e. links to www.mysite.com and mysite.com are treated as two different page ranks).

- Greg

>links to www.mysite.com and mysite.com are treated as two different page ranks

yeah, but your users have a double hit before they can bring up your page.

There should only be one IIS application per shared-hosted site. I don't know how you ended up this way because Marco and I both use WebHost4Life and we've had no problems (shhh, this isn't supposed to be an endorsement).

Maybe this is caused by the way you migrated your aspnet tables to the hosted DB?

Or maybe you are trying to run more than 1 application?

Eric