Works in IIS but wont work at host

bfboyce · November 23rd, 2013, 03:30 PM

I used the ASP.NET book as a guide to redo my website using VS 2010 Express. I originally built my website with Visual Studio 2005 but when I upgraded to WIN 8 I couldn't install that software. Building my site using the book was easy and after several hiccups I got it to run in IIS with the webpages all in the "Release" folder in inetpub/wwwroot. I moved the Release folder to my hosting service's (Brinkster) wwwroot folder. When I put my website's url in internet explorer I get errors (first security, then log in required). I then just put all the files from the Release folder directly in the wwwroot folder and got the same result. My start page is default.aspx. It is a very simple website, the default page just gives hyperlinks to go to one or the other of two pages. The only files I have are the default.aspx, the xyz.aspx for the other two pages, the xxx.aspx.vb codebehind files and the webconfig file. Since it runs in IIS, why wont it run at my host? Is it the webconfig file? Or is something missing from my site?

bfboyce · November 23rd, 2013, 03:31 PM

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Imar · November 24th, 2013, 03:21 AM

HI there,

Has your host been set up to run the correct version of ASP.NET in IIS? Maybe it's still on 2.0? Which errors are you getting exactly?

>> No code included in post

Not sure what that means.

Cheers,

Imar

bfboyce · November 24th, 2013, 08:38 AM

Parser Error Message: Could not load type '_Default'.

Line 1 is the highlighted line in the error message:
....
Line 1: <%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="_Default" %>
Line 2:
Line 3: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Source File: C:\Sites\Single10\bfboyce\webroot\default.aspx Line: 1
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Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.2502; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.2494
....

My site only includes three pages - default.aspx, and two other xxx.aspx pages that are hyperlinked to from default and a webconfig file.

Imar · November 26th, 2013, 03:36 AM

Hi there,

Take a look at the error message: it looks like the server is configured to run ASP.NET 1.1, while you need at least ASP.NET 2 or maybe even ASP.NET 4. You can configure this at the IIS level. Chapter 19 has more details.

Cheers,

Imar

bfboyce · November 26th, 2013, 06:12 PM

Imar: Thanks for your help. I could be out in left field on this project. First of all I'm using VWD 2010 Express and I have Windows 8 so some of the steps in your book for WIN 7 don't quite match up. I've also got an "inetpub" folder which I assume is the IIS system. I put my "Release" folder in the webroot folder at inetpub and the site runs fine but I cant be sure I've done all the right setup steps. My webconfig has very little in it:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="false" strict="false" explicit="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
</system.web>
</configuration>
That's it. Shouldn't there be more? I would think that any issues with moving the site to my host could be resolved by changing the webconfig file.

Imar · November 26th, 2013, 10:21 PM

>> Shouldn't there be more?

There should be more. You also need to tell IIS which version of the .NET Framework to use. Yours seems to be using ASP.NET 1.1 so you may need to install a later version on the server and tell IIS to use that version. Google should bring up some useful information on how to do that on your particular version of IIS.

Cheers,

Imar

bfboyce · December 7th, 2013, 07:27 PM

Imar:
All I had to do was get a host that used .net 4.0. I ended up switching hosts for my website since the one I had already required me to upgrade my account and it was more economical to switch. Now I simply upload my build files to the host's "root" and it runs just as nice as can be.
Thanks for your book and your help.
Brian