First publish

I opened my account today, read the forum post about deployment and used VS2008 Build/Publish to put my service to my home location. Next using control panel/Web Application Tool I was surprised to see that none of the files I just uploaded were listed? I then logged in using the FileZilla FTP client and with it I saw all my files: under top level directory there is index.html (your file), my service .asmx file, and Web.config. In the bin subdirectory are two DLLs that are required. Its a very simple service!

Next I tried to access my service using an HTTP URL that ended with the name of my service's asmx file, slash, and the name of my service as shown in the browser when one runs the service locally with the debugger. My test client got the message "(500) Internal Server Error".

Is there a way to determine what the problem really is?
Do I have the files in the proper place?
Do I need to set any permissions?

Thanks,

Dick

 

Thanks for the help.
However I did all the things you suggested and the Error Pages display simply appears to be showing what each of the error messages would default to as they all say they are inherited. Are you implying that I need to create my own handler for this error? Hope not.

The service I'm trying to deploy runs fine in the MS Studio development environment and my application has no trouble posting data to it and getting a response.

How do I see errors generated by trying to access this same service on my just created account?

Thanks,

Dick

 

No - just that one.
How do I tell if the data being posted is even hitting my site as maybe its going to the wrong place on the discountasp.net site?

Perhaps we can continue this dialog via email and I can share the URL being used in the post? Email: [email protected]

Dick

 

Re: First Publish - Resolved

As this was my first experience with IIS I didn't realize that by default HTTP post is disabled by default. If you want the details see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/819267

So all I needed to do was add the following to my Web.config file and the service worked instantly. I'm posting a Json request message and returning a Json response message - no usage of SOAP or XML.

<webServices>
<protocols>
<add name="HttpPost"/>
</protocols>
</webServices>

Regards,

Dick