Cant seem to create a new web app

I can't seem to create a new web app.

I am trying to install communityserver

I create a sub directory inside by root directory

I load the files

I set up the subdirectory as an application

When I run the installer normally I get a communityserver error page

So then I comment out the 'custom error' error section in the web.config, and then it begins using the web.config further down in my root directory!

Thanks for any advice!

Mitch

 

More info...

I just tried creating a simple 'hello world' aspx web page and that too fails.

If I leave the communityserver web.config file alone, I get redirected to the community server error page.

If I comment out the error handler section in the web.config, it starts trying to use my web.config from further down the directory tree.

I am a total new-bie so I suppose I am doing something basic wrong with setting up the application directory structure. (www.catprint.bz/CommunityServer)

Cheers
Mitch

 

So I just tried creating a simple app with one page etc.

Also does not work...

Uses the root directory web.config file instead of the sub directories web.config file.

Mitch

 

Bruce,

Thanks... no way to make a pointer or something to the stuff in the Bin file? Seems like microsoft didn't quite think that one out completely...

Mitch

 

Hey Mitch,

I managed to get CommunityServer installed, but I removed it after a couple days.

Anyways, I downloaded the web installer version. There is some installation documentation that says prior to uploading you need to modify a setting in the Installer\Default.aspx file. I can't exactly remember, but if you open that file in notepad, there will be a line that says something like "UseWebInstaller = False", which you need to change to true. This tripped me up when I installed, because I knew I had to change it, but forgot to change it when I ftp'd the files.

Sorry I couldn't be more exact, but have you made any changes like that?

Ron

 

Thanks Ron.

I further investigated and it seems to have nothing to do with CommunityServer. I can't even get a simple 'Hello World' App to work.

It must be something in my root directory or the way I am setting up my sub-applications.

BUT... By the way... you didn't like communityserver? Did you pick something else?

Mitch

 

About my install/removal of CommunityServer - it was just a "practice run" at the time. Just seeing how the installation would go and what it felt like administering the site. I added a bunch of fake users, then wanted to delete them, then found out it was nearly impossible to delete a user, so I had discountasp admin delete the entire database for me. I mostly use my website for testing purposes, nothing live.

Anyways, your catprint.bz site is ASP.NET right? And you want to install a sub-directory to run as a web application, but no .aspx pages are running from it? Can you provide a URL of a page in a sub-dir that is configured as a web application that doesn't work?

Ron

 

I just figured out what my problem was... (I should just go to bed instead of staying up all night trying to figure these things out...)

I did not realize that web.config is hiearachical, and that the upper levels inherit the settings from the lower levels unless you explicitly clear them.

So I needed to clear assemblies and httpModules

HOWEVER I was wondering given this hierarchical nature is there a way to make the assemblies and httpModules in the root application available in the children without copying them to the children's bin directories?

Mitch