Hosting Your ASP.NET Assignments

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Hosting Your ASP.NET Assignments

• Minder Chen, Ph.D.
• George Mason University
• Fairfax, VA 22030
• mchen_at_gmu.edu

The Server is donated by Microsoft Special thanks
to Dr. Rajan Sen at Microsoft for securing the
fund for the purchase of the server.
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Install a FTP Client Software

• Get your WS_FTP Lite
• At ftp//mason.gmu.edu/support/www/ws_ftp/

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WS_FP client

• Use your first 4 characters of your last name as
  your user name such as abou
• Use as your password

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FTP Server

• In this example, the URL for the web application
  is http//ebiz.gmu.edu/abou/

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Testing Your Application over the Web
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Security of the file folder on the server

• Right-click on the application folder and ensure
  ASPNET user account and if using Windows 2003 the
  IIS_WPG account have Modify permissions.

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Security Set up on the Server

• After creating a new local Web site, you can
  configure it to run ASP.NET pages and configure
  security. The following table shows the
  permissions settings that are available in all
  versions of IIS, including IIS 6.0

Account or Group Permissions
Administrators Full Control
System Full Control
An account or group that you choose to give browse access to the site if you disabled anonymous authentication when you created the virtual directory. Read Execute
The account configured to access system resources for the ASP.NET current user context, such as the Network Service account (IIS 6.0) or the ASPNET account (IIS 5.0 and 5.1) or IIS_WGP (IIS 7.0 - Windows 2003) Read Execute List Folder Contents Read Write
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Web Application folder on the

• Web application folder on the Web server should
  be a Web virtual directory under Internet IIS.
• If you cover a web application folder (which
  contain a web.config file) as a subfolder under
  your remote web folder. It will not work.
• The new subfolder needs to be created as a
  virtual directory to make it work.

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Copy Web Site

• Click Website at the pull-down Menu
• Choose Copy Web Site

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Set up the Connection to the ftp server
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Set up the FTP Connection
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Active and Passive Mode

• Visual Web Developer can establish connections to
  the FTP server in two modes active mode and
  passive mode. In FTP, the client (in this case,
  Visual Web Developer) and the server communicate
  using two ports. One port is used to transmit
  commands, and the other is used to transmit data.
• Active FTP benefits the server administrator. In
  active mode, the client initializes a connection
  to the server for the command port and passes to
  the server the port address for the data. The
  server then initializes a connection back to the
  client to open the data port.
• Passive FTP benefits a client behind a firewall.
  If the client is behind a firewall, the server's
  attempt to open a port on the client computer
  will likely fail. In passive mode, the client
  initializes the connections for both the command
  port and the data port. Because the client
  initializes the connection for both ports, the
  firewall allows the connections.
• For more information, see Active FTP vs. Passive
  FTP, a Definitive Explanation.

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Upload Multiple Files to the Remote Web Site
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Check off the "Enable debugging"
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• Do you have your virtual directory set up
  correctly and mapped to thecorrect dir in IIS?
• Is your assembly in a bin folder in the
  application root?
• Have you built your assembly?
• Is it referencing a start up page? Are your
  application pools running?
• Is IIS running?
• Answering one of those questions will solve
  yourproblem

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• I guess I'm still not clear on what you want to
  do.  Do you wish to see the error messages in
  detail so you can fix a problem? Do you wish to
  supress all error messages? ltcustomErrors
  mode"Off"/gt will allow you to see details about
  the errorltcustomErrors mode"On"/gt will send
  you to the defined page based on the error
  code.  However, this requires you to define the
  error code to page mapping in the config
  file.ltcustomErrors mode"RemoteOnly"/gt will
  perform just like "On" when you connect from a
  remote machine (not localhost).  This is most
  useful because you don't have to worry about
  forgetting to change it when you deploy the app
  but can still see the error details while
  developing.

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• is the directory in which you saved your files
  actually an IIS application?Otherwise there is a
  confict between the web.config of your app and
  that ofthe IIS application plus your binaries
  won't be found.gt Either define that app as a
  new IIS app or remove web.config and copyyour
  dlls to the bin folder of the app root.

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