HI
have you checked
http://support.microsoft.c
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On my development server (Win2003 Server) I can test host my WCF Service, writtne in VB .Net 2008 and use it as planned from my client apps on my development machine.
However, when I upload the content to my live server (Win2003 Server), I only get error messages displayed instead of the content I'm expecting. Here's what I get...
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.
I have checked and double-checked the user permissions, and have made sure that the ASPNET user is the one that IIS uses, as well as checked that the remote server has .Net Framework 3.x installed. I am baffled by this and urgently need some assistance.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Kind regards,
Brett
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HI
have you checked
http://support.microsoft.c
Thanks for the replies.
sjors1309: Yes, the files are exactly as published by VB .Net 2008. To confirm this, here are files and their structure on my webserver...
\bin
\Service1.svc
\Web.config
The code itself is simply the demo code provided when creating a WCF Service in VB2008.
elimesika: Yes, this is one of the first pages I found when first looking into the problem. The page basically says that if you have changed the password of the ASPNET user account, then you need to log that username/password combination in the machine.config file. The result is still the same.
Any more ideas? (Other than reformat the server and start again!!)
Cheers
Brett
Ok - I'm getting somewhere now...
My error has changed somewhat, and depending upon which machine I use to test it, depends on what error i get...
From my client (dev) machine, if I access the URL: www.mydomain.com/services/
Server Error in '/Services' Application
Runtime Error
(It goes on then to say that the CustomErrors section in the web.config file is invalid)
OR if I try the same URL from within my remote (live) server, I get this error:
Server Error in '/Services' Application.
Failed to access IIS metabase.
Either way, this (below) is what appears in my Application Log...
Good point... my ASPUser account didn't have write permissions set on the folder that the Virtual directory points to... And now my error page has changed again.
I think I'm on a mission to find each and every error message possible here...! Ha Ha...
Here's part of the output from the event log... it seems that a chunk of my framework is missing.
The missing assembly is the Ajax Extensions framework. You probably use some of Ajax's functionality in your code? This seems to be yet another question...:)
Maybe you didn't install the Ajax framework onto the live server. Then this assembly is not in de Gac and therefore cannot be loaded.
Install Ajax on this server, or copy System.Web.Extensions.dll to the applications bin folder (if applicable) and see what happens.
After days of looking at this from as many different angles as I can, it seems that I have inadvertently uninstalled the .Net Framework 3.0 and 3.5... but despite numerous attempts to reinstall it, either manually or using Microsoft Update, it won't go on.
I get this:
The following updates were not installed: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0: x86 (KB928416)
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by: sjors1309Posted on 2008-05-31 at 14:19:39ID: 21685084
Is your .svc file in the root directory of your application on the live server?