First Time Publish Hangs Forever

Hi all,

So far I'm very happy with DASP but I'm having trouble finally getting my site up and running. I've developed this site over the past few months and deployed it to various dev servers for testing so I'm familiar with the process.

It's ASP.NET 3.5 and it uses 2 SQL 2008 databases. First I backed up the databases locally then restored them to the 2 databases I purchased through DASP. I verified all the tables exist using SQL Management Studio and I've updated all my keys in web.config. I then published all my files using VS 2008 via FTP. I chose 'Only Publish Necessary Files', so I then manually compared directories and uploaded the necessary files it missed.

I then browse to the site (http://sportspractitioners.org) and it just hangs forever. If I browse to a specific image (http://sportspractitioners.org/_images/aasplogo.jpg)it works. If I browse to a folder (http://sportspractitioners.org/guest/)I get the browse directory page as I should. If I browse to a page I know doesn't exist (http://sportspractitioners.org/unknown), I get appropriate IIS error.

What am I missing?

 

It does a lot of things. My dev server is here: http://aasp.bunkerhollow.com

I don't have any problems deploying to my own machines and without any error/log information I have no idea what's wrong. I'm really stuck.

 

OK, I can get the default page up if I comment out my LINQ to SQL code that fills the 'Newest Members' information on the homepage.

With further testing, any page that accesses the database hangs forever. I'm using ASP.NET 3.5 with LINQ to SQL and I've changed the connection strings in all my .config files.

Still stuck.

EDIT: When publishing to my own DEV server I need to set the 'NETWORK SERVICE' login to have dbo permission on my databases. So maybe this is a permission issue?

Post Edited (mddubs) : 1/4/2009 6:28:56 PM GMT

 

My LINQ project contains an app.config file. I needed to simply copy those connection strings to my web.config. Problem solved.