I just registered my domain name / published my site with discountasp.net, and I have two issues: 1) If I go to the site name (www.awardwinnersonly.com), it opens the discountasp.net site, not my own; I must go to www.awardwinnersonly.com/myapp to see my site, and that is not what I want users to have to do (append "/myapp" to the URL) 2) The .json files that my site loads are not being loaded from that URL. IOW, the site is basically unusable at this point. I think I know why, and I think the solution would be for discountasp.net to point www.awardwinnersonly.com to my site without the need of an appended "/myapp"; I think this would probably clear up both problems. But...am I wrong? Is this (removing the "/myapp" something I can do myself?
it looks like you put your site in the /myapp directory. To achieve what you want, simple put the application in the root.
Thanks, Frank; is that something I have to do from Visual Studio, or can I love it from /myapp to the root from DiscountASP.NET's tools? BTW, I don't think that "/myapp" should be a default landing location for files; at the very least, it should warn people that if they use that, they will have to navigate to "www.<YourSiteName>.com/myapp" which kind of siphons.
That's something you will need to change in Visual Studio. In the web deploy settings you just need to remove the part /myapp. Our web deploy settings is set up to deploy to a subdirectory called /myapp. So to web deploy to the root of the hosting account just remove the /myapp in the "Site/application" section and in the "Destination URL" section.
A reason why it's the default landing location is because Web Deploy will overwrite files. It's to help prevent customers from accidentally overwriting their entire website.
Perfect; thanks. That's what I want to do when I update my site - overwrite all the old stuff. Hey, Ray - quit playing that git-fiddle and get back to work! {
I did what was suggested, but still, when I navigate to www.awardwinnersonly.com, I get the discountasp.net site, and when I navigate to www.awardwinnersonly.com/myapp, I get "The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred." I'm pretty sure I did what was suggested, namely in Visual Studio (2012 Ultimate), I selected "Build > Publish Web" and I removed the "/myapp" from Site name, so that it's now "awardwinnersonly.com", and I did the same with Destination URL, so that it is now http://www.awardwinnersonly.com However, I see in the Preview section that the file names still contain "\myapp"; is that okay, or how can that be fixed? I did see at http://www.awardwinnersonly.com a message that my site is up and running, and that I would need to remove the index.html file, but how? I see no link on the page after logging in. It sure isn't obvious (not to me, anyway). Oh, I see now it says I can now upload my files, but I already did that. When I go to www.awardwinnersonly.com/myapp, I see: HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid. Detailed Error Information: Module IIS Web Core Notification BeginRequest Handler Not yet determined Error Code 0x80070003 Config Error Cannot read configuration file Config File \\?\E:\web\awardwinner\htdocs\myapp\web.config Requested URL http://www.awardwinnersonly.com:80/myapp Physical Path E:\web\awardwinner\htdocs\myapp Logon Method Not yet determined Logon User Not yet determined Config Source: -1: 0:
Okay, it's working, and probably had been for awhile -- the problem was, I had been trying to access it at www.awardwinnersonly.com, whereas it is really at http://awardwinnersonly.com However, I'm not sure that's what it is supposed to be, or things got messed up somehow, yet they still work, because shouldn't it have a "www"? In fact, Visual Studio said, "Site was published successfully http://www.awardwinnersonly.com/" ??? I hope this doesn't mean I'm going to have trouble updating my site, as I know that it does say the target URL includes a "www"...
You are probably seeing some DNS caching. I tested both http://awardwinnersonly.com and http://www.awardwinnersonly.com Didn't get any error.