setting up asp.net server

[kylemcna]

Hello,

Sorry for complete newbie-ness:
1) Can I not just copy the whole myapp directory out of the

http://wwwroot

on my local machine and put it in the same location on the server?

2) If not, do I have to go through the process of creating a deploy/release project?

3) If so, I tried that (selecting "Primary OUtput" and "Content files" in the process) and it creates two dirs "Debug" and Release". The only purported .msi fil is in the "Debug" directory along with a Setup.exe and a setup.ini...

.. then I run the "Release MyApp.msi" file on the target (new) server and it creates a directory MyApp with one sub dir "bin" and three DLLs... which encompass the class libraries... nothing apparently related to the web-part of the solution.

Is this overkill? Does it sound like I messed up?

Help!

tx,

k

 

[link9]

You can just copy the files to a directory on your server. You only need the .aspx, .ascx, .config, and .asax files. Actually, you can use VS to just copy the files you need. You can find that tool under Project --> Copy.

The only gotcha will be that if you're copying the application to a sub-root, then you'll have to right click that directory in IIS, and on the general tab next to the application name (which is greyed out by default), you'll need to click "Create".

It's called x-copy deployment, and if you still have problems, post a specific error message back here.

-paul

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[kylemcna]

Hello,

I used the Project / Copy option, and it worked much better... I still get the same error though when trying to run the app:

"ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve service name"

Now, I can successfully connect to the database via TOAD and other methods on that server, so I know the database and tnsnames file configuration is fine.

One possible clue is that for some reason I also got the same error on my development machine after fiddling all day with the server yesterday. I rebuilt the project and the error went away. I had never previously or since received that tnsnames error on my local dev machine.

Any thoughts on that?

thank you,

kyle

 

[ca8msm]

Where do you specify the conection string? Is it in web.config?

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[kylemcna]

yes

 

[link9]

Hmmm... double check that all your assemblies are in the /bin folder.

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[kylemcna]

yep, all in there