Re: Problems deploying a web application

Well, the server is in a hosting company and I only have ftp access,
so I guess they already created the virtual directory on this shared
server.



On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:27:29 -0600, Ivanoff, Alex
<aivanoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The xcopy deployment does not work for web applications. You need to create
> a virtual directory for your application on the server.
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of building .NET applications targeted for the Web
> [mailto:DOTNET-WEB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of lizet peña
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:00
> To: DOTNET-WEB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [DOTNET-WEB] Problems deploying a web application
> 
> Hello all,
> This is my first asp.net real application. I have a local copy that runs
> fine on my locahost but I'm having troubles when I copy the files to the
> remote server. I changed the connection string to the remote database,
> copied the dlls corresponding to the application blocks we use (Data
> Application Block and Exception Handling Block), also changed the
> csproj.webinfo file to point to the new server, but when we try to access
> out remote application we get the following error:
> 
> "Server Application Unavailable
> 
> The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is
> currently unavailable.  Please hit the "Refresh" button in your web browser
> to retry your request.
> 
> Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this specific
> request failure can be found in the application event log of the web server.
> Please review this log entry to discover what caused this error to occur."
> 
> What could be causing this? Any setting file we're missing? Shouldn't the
> deployment be as easy as copying the scripts to the server?
> 
> Thanks for helping a deployment newbie,
> 
> Lizet
> 
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