I want to deploy on IIS my web site but I do not want to take whole project. I just need to take .dll file. Is their any way to do so.
I do not want to use visual studio only .dll file from the project to deploy.
The basic steps for deploying to IIS on windows server are as follows:
log onto the machine that is or will be hosting your application.
Use IIS Manager to create a new website for your application.
Create a new application in that site. I believe this also will automatically create an application pool with the same name for you and use it by default.
Specify the virtual directory for your application. This is going to tell IIS where to look for your mvc application. For this case lets assume it is C:\myApp
On your own machine Build the application however you build it with the correct solution configuration (i.e. Release mode). Let say the result of your build is located at C:\MyProject\bin
Copy C:\MyProject\bin from your machine onto your hosting machine at C:\myApp
You should be able to search these steps and find a step by step guide of how to accomplish them. Here is a link to some info on what sites, applications and app pools are to help you better understand.
http://www.iis.net/learn/get-started/planning-your-iis-architecture/understanding-sites-applications-and-virtual-directories-on-iis
Based on your sites requirements there will be some additional steps to set up security and alter bindings if you need to change them.
You don't need to deploy your entire website if you only make a change in a single assembly. You could copy the .DLL assembly directly to the bin folder of your website. This will trigger the Application Pool to be recycled in IIS and the changes will be taken into effect on the next request.
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I have a Asp.Net Core MVC application running on Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS. But every time I update this application, I need to manually stop the applicationPool in IIS, and restart the applicationPool after I finish updating the app. Otherwise it will tel me "the xxx.dll is in use by other progress".
Is there any way to make this process easier?
A workaround For Windows with no down time and I am regularly using is:
Rename running .NET core application dll to filename.dll.backup
Upload the new .dll (web application is available and serving the requests while file is being uploaded)
Once upload is complete recycle the Application Pool. Either Requires RDP Access to server or function to recycle application pool in your hosting control panel.
IIS overlaps the app pool when recycling so there usually isn’t any downtime during a recycle. So requests still come in without every knowing the app pool has been recycled and the requests are served seamlessly with no downtime.
I am still searching for more better method than this..!! :)
January 2022 - for Linux
For Linux, we use Openresty nginx with Lua script to hold (sleep) incoming requests for few seconds until the service running .NET Core or .NET 5 or .Net 6 application restarts and then we release the threads we had hold.
Refer: https://github.com/basecamp/intermission
Finally I found my anwser:
I just need add a file named app_offline.htm to the IIS web root(not your project wwwroot folder), and remove it after you replace all of your file.
due to this issue you may need try both App_Offline.htm or app_offline.htm .
and this will allow you to use FTP client to update
Opening the web.config file in an editor and saving it will cause the web application to reload, even if you don't change anything. All DLLs should be replaceable, until a user hits the site, causing the web application to start again. I sometimes use that as a workaround.
A more full fledged solution would be to use Web Deploy, either through Visual Studio or by command line. This can take a litte while to set up, but offers more automation.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/publishing/iis#deploy-the-application-1
There is no way to hotswap in place DLL's.
Your best bet is to deploy to a new folder each time (For example a versioned folder), and change the website directory in IIS once you have fully copied your website onto the server.
The scenario:
I'm very new to ASP.Net MVC programming and running into a wall constantly trying to make use of common files (.js, .css) across multiple projects.
The idea is to have these generic files in 1 location which provides for easy future updates and avoids the "copy and paste" dilemma across all the projects. I've set this folder up in IIS7 as a virtual directory in the default website with an alias "CommonFiles".
The problem:
With MVC-4 I'm trying to add the js files to a script bundle but upon running the application it's not picking the files up at all. (checked in the page source and also added a js function as a test)
Code snippet in BundleConfig.cs:
bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/test").Include("~/CommonFiles/test.js"));
Rendering in _Layout.cshtml:
#Scripts.Render("~/bundles/test")
I've read quite a few posts (
Script Bundling in WebForms with Virtual Directories (asp webforms though), How to add reference to System.Web.Optimization for MVC-3-converted-to-4 app, ScriptBundle not rendering scripts that are in a VirtualDirectory) but i'm afraid my lack of knowledge on MVC is limiting my path forward and really hoping to get some insight into how MVC handles IIS virtual directories and if it's even an easy possibility given the last post i've read above.
Can this be done in MVC-4 and if not what is a second best alternative in reusing common code across projects?
After reading a post by kev (Using ServerManager to create Application within Application) it put me on the right path and the issue I had is actually embarrassing.
For the sake of other devs landing on this post with a similar issue in visual studio, this is what fixed my issue:
Problem:
I make use of a separate project which contains files that are used across multiple other projects. I created a virtual folder in IIS7 referencing these files. This means if a change is needed to the common files, it's updated once and all the other projects will automatically "see" the change.
My other individual projects make use of script bundling to include files relevant only to the said project, but also to reference the common files in the virtual folder as defined in IIS.
My MVC-4 web application wasn't picking up the common files given the syntax above, in neither debug or release..
Solution:
When developing in VS2012, under the project's properties, there's a setting under the web tab where you can specify whether you want to use local IIS web server or IIS Express to test your application. IIS Express adds a random port to the site in order to test, and to allow multiple instances of sites to run (on different ports). This seems to throw the virtual directory include off in the bundling.
Choosing to use the local IIS server is closer to what the "live" environment would be in my opinion. Just un-tick the "Use IIS Express" setting.
As a side note and for more info on what the difference between the usage of IIS and IIS express is and whether it's suitable for your environment (as it was for mine) see this link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/58wxa9w5.aspx
Hope this helps someone in future and saves them the amount of time I wasted on this!
I've come into a company that has been using asp.net for some web applications stored on our local servers. There's no current programmer, so I've used what knowledge I have to build a new feature using MebMatrix Razor VB.NET pages and our current SQL Server database. I have to migrate the project over to a local server running IIS to deploy it.
I don't want to use the WebMatrix Web Deploy feature or anything, I'd rather just move the files over manually and have them run. I assume that IIS just needs to be configured to process .vbhtml file extensions. My understanding is that you don't have to build your solution with this method, as you do with ASP. Does anybody know how to do this, or where I might find a good tutorial?
Copy the directory for your website from the 'My Web Sites' folder in Documents. Paste it into the 'inetpub' directory on the server.
Now open IIS Manager, on the left hand side in the connections pane, right click on 'Sites' and 'Add Web Site'. Choose a name, select the default AppPool, browser to the 'inetpub' directory and select your site's folder, set a port that doesn't conflict with any other sites running, and click OK.
On the right hand pane, click browse, you should be able to see your new website.
We are developing a Dynamic Web project using RAD which will run on WAS 7.0. We have configured WAS 7.0 within RAD to run the application directly from RAD. We also have
a web server setup and we need the static files in our Dynamic Web project to be served from Web server.
Unfortunately when we run the application from RAD, it doesn't add the information in plugin.xml file of web server. So we checked this in <WebApplication_Name>/Manage Modules section
in WAS Admin console. We are not able specify the web server target also there.
Is there anything that we can do to tell RAD to publish the application both to WAS and IHS? Could you please assist?
I am afraid this cannot be done using the RAD IDE out-of-the-box, as it just publishes your appication to WAS.
A solution to this would be to build and publish the application using a tool like Ant and place in your build script an extra step to appropriately change the plugin-cfg file.
I'm looking for suggestions on keeping a program that is running on a network updated. Installation consists of 15 users, each have the program on their local pc, but they all access same date from sql server.
I am looking for a clean method that would allow me to update one folder on the network and for each computer to get updated when they run the program and the programs sees a later ver on that folder on the network. (Obviously I can do this inside the program itself since it won't allow being overwritten while opened.)
You should have a look at
ClickOnce is a deployment technology
that enables self-updating
Windows-based applications that can be
installed and run with minimal user
interaction.
Using ClickOnce Deployment in
VB.NET
ClickOnce - A new VB.NET 2005 Deployment Tool
ClickOnce Deployment for Windows Forms Applications
ClickOnce Deployment in .NET Framework 2.0
Another option is to create a second program that will check the network for an updated version of your application. Let's call this program "updater.exe".
You can run updater.exe on system startup like Adobe Reader or Sun Java do.
Or, when your application is started it can load updater.exe. If updater.exe finds an update, it can close/unload your application, download the newer version, restart your application and close itself.
astander's answer above is correct, you can use ClickOnce for this. Another option is creating this application as a web application.
Web applications basically work the way you described, the application's files reside in a web server, all the users connect to it using a browser, and to update the application you only need to update the files in the server.