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Can't make web applications in Visual Studio
Hello,
My boss recently purchased Visual Studio.net professional edition,
so that i would be able to create web pages, that would display factory part counts and other useful data. The problem is, i get a 500 internal server error, every time i try to create a web application. I can create window applications just fine, i was wondering if it has something to do with the server i am creating it on. Visual Studio itself is stored on my computers hard drive, all my files get saved on the j:\ server, just wondering if anyone could help me to create web applications. Thanks
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> something to do with the server i am creating it on
Are you intending to develop on this (other) server?
Why don't you develop on your development machine -- running IIS, ASP.NET, etc. -- then deploy to the other server.
I think you should at least try just creating a new Web Project on your development machine.
If it works on the dev machine, you can get started developing, while determining how the other server needs to be set up.
> files get saved on the j:\ server
I think it doesn't work right if j: is on another machine. I have only a vague recollection of this, though.
(Can anyone authoritatively confirm or deny that?)
I have tried everything that has been suggested: reinstalling IIS, unchecking the show friendly in the internet options, and i am unable to create a web page under my machine, the only thing i havent done is check with the administrator yet, but other then that i havent had any luck, this is the exact error that i get:
"The web server reported the following error when attempting to create or open the web project located at the following url: http://localhost/mynewpage
Not really sure what is going on, could use some more advice, thanks
Exactly what steps are you doing in VS.NET to get this error. Like ...
(1) I open VS.NET Ver. _____
(2) I click File ...
etc.
If you build an tiny HTML file manually (with Notepad, for example) and put it in the directory, can you get browse to it with http://localhost/mynewpage
--- Something like this for sample.html ---
<html><head></head>
<body>It worked.</body
</html>
I open visual studio profesional edition i click file new then i select asp.net web applications. http://localhost is the default that is given then mynewpage is the name of the webpage i am trying to create, once i hit ok, i get the error. It doesnt work with the notepad example. I have to save the test html page under J:\tooling\sab\testpage.ht
http://localhost default with the j:\tooling\sab file directory and it wont let me create anything.
All the data on the j: drive is stored on the server and is shared with all the employees. i tried creating web applications on just my machine and i am unable to. I can however access windows applications from the j drive, i am wondering if the security level might be set too high, would that cause a problem?
I think you need to ask your server admin (if it's not already yourself) to instal Microsoft FrontPage Server Extension on that website.
That error you are getting is common when you try to create a web project on a server that does not have FP Server extension setup.
Assuming that FP server extensions 2000 has been installed on the server, you simply need to open IIS, Right Click the web site, goto All Tasks, and choose "Config Server Extension"
If the option (or a similiar option) is not availabel from the All Tasks menu, then goto the control panel, choose "Add Remove Programs", CLick "Windows Components", and then make sure FP Server extensions is selected (you may need your Windows CD)
Key reference documents:
Ref 1: "Visual Studio.NET
http://windows.epfl.ch/inf
Ref 2: "HOW TO: Troubleshoot Visual Studio .NET Installation"
http://support.microsoft.c
Ref 3: "HOW TO: Create a New ASP.NET Web Application on a Remote Web Server" !!!
http://support.microsoft.c
Ref 4: "http://support.microsoft.
http://support.microsoft.c
This one will come in handy once you do get everything working.
Ref 5: "The .NET Show: Debugging with Visual Studio .NET"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/
Read and understand those documents in great detail.
There are so many things that can possible be wrong, you need to methodologically break down the problem into smaller steps.
Concentrate on one small problem at a time. First, make sure you can build web apps on your own development machine ONLY.
Do not use remote drives.
Then, move on to trying to get it to work on the server.
You might try a few of the steps individually, if they seem appropriate, before resorting to the whole uninstall/reinstall process.
Try the following on your machine ONLY.
--- PREPARATION ---
(1) Does your system have the minimum requirements? (Read-Me Sections ___)
Check memory and hard disk space, but also:
"Windows XP Home Edition provides limited functionality. Creating Web applications or XML Web services is not supported when using Windows XP Home Edition.
ASP.NET applications can only be hosted on Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003.
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server is not a supported operating system.
Increasing your RAM above the recommended system configuration increases your performance specifically when running multiple applications, working with large projects, or doing enterprise-level development.
When you start the Visual Studio .NET 2003 installer, the default installation location is your system drive, which is the drive that boots your system. However, you can install the application on any drive. Regardless of the application's location, the installation process installs some files on your system drive. Consequently, ensure that the required amount of space identified in the tables above is available on your system drive regardless of the application's location, and ensure that additional space is available on the drive on which you install the application. Custom installation choices may require more or less drive space."
Note that Windows 98 is not supported for Visual Studio .NET.
Precheck registry size. (Section 5.5)
Check other versions (Section 5.21)
Check: Read-Me "5.26. Installing Visual Studio .NET 2003 before installing ASP.NET on Windows Server 2003 prevents creation of Visual J# .NET Web applications." [Does that sound familiar?]
Check Sections 5.* for any other issues that may apply to your machine.
(2) Log in as the local System Administrator for installation/uninstallatio
Make sure you have proper permissions to do the install (or have someone with Administrative priviledges to do it).
(3) Make sure your AntiVirus, personal firewall, and similar tools are disabled before each and every uninstall or install. (Section 5.24)
(4) Clear contents of the System\Temp directory. (Ref.2 Troubleshooting)
(5) Follow the other instructions in that Read-Me file (link above), including:
Uninstall prerelease versions.
(6) (optional) From my own experience with major installation problems, I recommend uninstalling both VS.NET and IIS, then reinstalling IIS as VS.NET. See also 4.5 in the Read-Me.
(7) Update your operating system with any available updates and service packs. Use the Windows Update feature.
--- INSTALLATION ---
Still using ideas expressed above ...
(1) Install IIS.
(2) Install VS.NET 2003.
--- FOLLOWUP ---
(*) Verify what works and what doesn't.
(*) Is IIS properly installed on your machine?
(*) Front Page Extensions
(*) Virtual Directories
(*) Can you create a web application on your server?
(*) Are you entering the appropriate info when you do a save of the web project?
---
After you have it working on your machine, then either:
(1) Get it working with your remote server.
(2) Don't worry about that, and just deploy, rather than develop applications on that server.
Go back to the Read-Me, Section 4.2 "Configuring a Remote Web Server for ASP.NET Projects". Read very carefully the sections labeled "To configure a separate Web server compute for Visual Studio .NET 2003" and "Important debugging information".
---
You MUST install VS.NET and/or the SDK to your local drive. (As you have.)
I'm still unconvinced that using the J: drive for projects is a good idea, though I can't explain why. Other people also have problems using a mapped network drive:
(Some of these are long. Just search for "mapped".)
http://p2p.wrox.com/archiv
http://msdn.microsoft.com/
http://cis.fvtc.edu/waterm
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Hey
donot worry at all ,It is not allowing to open ASP.Net web Applications
Done follow the following steps
1.Was the IIS installed later than VS.Net
then in the VS.Net command prompt run ASPNET_REGIIS.exe -I
if still then it is not working then
go and check the configuration/setting from tools menu
else
if u r working in a proxied environment then ask to bypass the proxy setting for localhost
transmissions
thats it it will work
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by: YZlatPosted on 2004-01-22 at 06:28:00ID: 10174019
Try to turn off show http error messages, by doing the following steps:
- Open your Internet Explorer
- Click Tools
- Select Internet Options
- Switch to Advanced Tabl
- Scroll down until you find "Show friendly http error messages" under browsing section
Make sure that option is unchecked.
- Click OK button
- Restart your IE and post the real error message.