The nifty javascript for the contact form isn't working in production. : (

IceThatJaw · January 19th, 2012, 11:36 PM

I decided to deploy my personal site just for fun and while the slide up seems the work the whole thing with the red expanding box and the message don't show up at all in either firefox or IE.

Any idea what could be causing this? They work just fine in the development environment.

Thanks.

Imar · January 20th, 2012, 11:32 AM

Hi there,

Did you deply the jQuery script to the server? And is the path to that file correct? Can I take a look at the live site?

Imar

IceThatJaw · January 20th, 2012, 05:37 PM

I don't know about deploying the javascript but I did copy over my entire website directory on to the web server.

The slide up part seems to be working but the appearing message with the expanding red box is completely nonexistent.

The url is www.dbilinski.com

It's not a huge deal as this site is just practice in case I decide to do some web programming in the future but it is odd that only half of it works on a live server.

P.S. I noticed the overall performance on the live server is pretty bad and is nothing like it is on my local server. Would caching the masterpage help at all? I tried putting update panels on most content pages but it only helped with the grids. but they still load pretty slow.
Thanks.

Imar · January 20th, 2012, 07:12 PM

I tested out the form, and it seems the server returns an error (your error page with "I'm sorry, an error has occurred") rather than the status message.

Maybe something goes wrong when sending the e-mail? Try turning off friendly error messages, or configure the "errors by e-mail" feature as explained in the book.

>> Would caching the masterpage help at all?

No, it won't. You can't cache a master page as it should render differently for each page.
Maybe you just have a slow server? Have you talked to your host?

Imar

IceThatJaw · January 21st, 2012, 07:12 PM

Hey Imar,

Well the whenever I use the contact form it does indeed send me an email.

I took out the custom error stuff and what's happening now is that anytime I try to log in or create a new account I get this error.

A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)

Am I supposed to enable something in my web-config so that the aspnet.mdf file in my app_data can be used on the web server?

Imar · January 22nd, 2012, 05:44 AM

Hi there,

Quote:

Am I supposed to enable something in my web-config so that the aspnet.mdf file in my app_data can be used on the web server?

It depends. If you control the server and it's running SQL Server Express with an instance name of SqlExpress, it should work. However, if you're hosting your site with a hosting company, they typically don't support Express and you need to modify your connection string to match their setup. Chapter 19 and Appendix B provide all the details.

Cheers,

Imar