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.
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I have a web app (.Net 4.6.2) running on an Azure App Service with Application Insights. I'm using SQL Azure as a back end. When Application Insights logs sql dependencies, the command text isn't included, just the server name and the database name shows up under 'Command'
I've uninstalled and reinstalled the extension and seem to have exhausted online sources. Can anybody suggest where else I look for a solution?
Is this how you install the extension? (Just double checking) And you tried removing/adding back the extension?
Also - does you application refer to SDK in source code already? (via nuget)
So, we have a web app we've migrated to .net core, and while it runs fine in Visual Studio 2017, because Visual Studio uses its "launchSettings.json" file to configure how IIS Express will work/launch - I, for the life of me, cannot figure out how to get VS Code to run the project. The problem is, we use HTTPS only and have always just let IIS Express used the self-signed locahost cert to allow this, so when debugging the site locally, we'd always use https://localhost:44300. As stated, this worked fine when entering this url in the launchSerttings.json file for Visual Studio, but VS Code does not use this, and the only answers I can find on this always refer to having to use the Kestrel Server's .Listen() method and used a self-signed cert and password to allow the use of an HTTPS port. 1) this seems just silly that I'd have to add this "test" code to run it locally, because I don't need it when we deploy to Azure, as Azure manages the certs and url for us. 2) Visual Studio 2017 does not need any specification on Kestrel to make this all work. So, I have hard time believing there isn't some extension, or process to achieve the same thing in Visual Studio Code that Visual Studio is doing under the hood to allow IIS Express to communicate with the .Net Core Kestrel Server.
Combing through the all the documentation suggests that the ASPNetCoreModule is what handles this communication for IIS and Kestrel, so, I would hope/guess there has to be some way to configure the web.config file's tag to include something that would make this work.
I've previously used and tried other IIS execution extensions in VS Code, but those focus on elements in the project's web.config to boot IIS which are no longer present in the web.config due to it being a .Net Core app. I had been successfully running the web app with the IIS Express Executor extension before migrating to .Net Core when the web app was a .NET Framework 4.5.2 app
So, the end goal is that I need to be able to go to https://localhost:44300 in the browser, and have our site work, but I don't want to have to add any sort of test-cert into the Kestrel config in the Program.cs or Startup.cs files. If there's no way to do this, then that will be really disappointing considering Visual Studio makes this seem like it should be very simple.
Thanks for the help.
Was able to get this to work using the following steps.
1) Install IIS Express executer in VS Code or any other similiar extension that wraps around dotnet commands
2) Download Process Explorer from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
3) Launch Visual Studio IIS Express as you would normally
4) Open Process Explorer (may need to launch as Admin) and locate iisexpress.exe -> VSIISExeLauncher.exe
5) Right click VSIISExeLauncher.exe and click properties then locate the "Environment" tab. Inside the environment tab you will see 2 variables: LAUNCHER_PATH and LAUNCHER_ARGS. Copy both of these variables and values.
6) Next locate the configuration file for the extension you installed in VS code (mine is launch.json inside the .vscode folder in your project root directory). It will likely have an "environment" or "env" section for adding environment variables to the launch arguments. Add the two arguments copied from step 5. These vary from person to person so the value of the arguments will be unique to your machine.
7) Launch IIS-Express from vs code. My particular command for this is "IIS-EE: Start IIS Express Server" but will vary based on the extension you installed. You can hit F1 to launch commands.
Visual Studio itself uses too many tricks under the hood to make you believe it is simple. However, it is not.
I documented all necessary details in a blog post,
https://blog.lextudio.com/how-visual-studio-launches-iis-express-to-debug-asp-net-core-apps-d7fd3677e3c3
And if you follow the steps manually, you should be able to launch IIS Express the same way VS does, and then use that in Visual Studio Code. I know there is some VSCode extensions trying to integrate with IIS and IIS Express, but I do hope those authors spend more time learning such integration and improve their extensions to fully support the scenarios.
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.
Recently i have completed my first project using strut framework. And i want to run the project in my web space (www.mywebsite.com) instead of running it as http://localhost . How do i run it in my website? Can someone guide me please.
Thanks
First, you need an application server, if your application only uses Servlet API (you don't have EJB's) I recommend you that install tomcat or jetty servers.
Second, you must package your application in a WAR file; depending on the build tool you are using, it probably offers you some facilites to do that
Third, deploy the WAR file in the application server
I check all over the net and i can't find a way to get the new version of subtext without using the Web platform installer? Why do we need to install a installer in order to get the source code? what's the purpose of this additional hoop? does anyone know how to get any of the web app on the web gallery without using the web platform installer?
edit: ok, i find it on the link text
still what is the purpose of the web installer? why not just give us the source?
The Web Platform Installer is used to download and install the product on your machine. It can handle things like applying the appropriate IIS settings, setting permissions on the file system, etc...
So it's great for getting a running instance of Subtext or other web software working on a server.
If you want the source code, go to http://code.google.com/p/subtext