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I have a website that works in visual studio, and want to publish on a server.
When I upload files to server, and type the sitename followed by default.aspx
I get a 404 error:page not found.
The server company says the .net framework 4 is available to the website. Tried putting a link to default.aspx page on the old web page, get the same error when clicked!
What am i doing wrong? Does something need to be changed in the config file?

Posted 18-Dec-12 11:33am

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Turned out software programs needed to be added to server account in order to have convert to application method

Posted 1-Jan-13 18:35pm

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Christian Graus · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-18T11:35:00

Solution 1

Your question is not urgent to us. Please don't be rude.

Your web host is the person to work with, to make sure the site is properly configured in their IIS. I suspect your issue has to do with the URL you are typing in, and the way IIS is configured.

Posted 18-Dec-12 11:35am

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Member 9445358 18-Dec-12 17:40pm

The old site is available, and can be viewed in browser. The link on the old site gives a 404. If it was IIS, then the original site wouldn't launch would it?

Christian Graus 18-Dec-12 17:46pm

If there is an old site and a new site, and the old site is live, but the link does not work, then the old site is set up in IIS, but the new page is not where the link expects it to be. The new site may well not be set up in IIS. Hard to tell from your oblique question.

Member 9445358 18-Dec-12 18:31pm

the old site start page is index.html and the folder it is in holds all the files.
The links off the old page are:
HOME •
CONTACT
new
Where the first two are old site links and the third is from the new site

Christian Graus 18-Dec-12 18:32pm

I don't know if you think that means I can answer your question, it does not. If aspx pages are not running on the old site, there's no reason to assume IIS is set up to process them properly

Christian Graus 18-Dec-12 18:44pm

Tell them your URL and ask why it does not work.

Christian Graus 18-Dec-12 19:28pm

Thats fine, I'd stop replying if I didn't want to help :-)

Member 9445358 29-Dec-12 15:58pm

Can you give me some insight or direct me to info about using one-click publishing in vs2010 to server?
Specifically an ftp site folder was setup, and i transferred the files into the server folder using vs2010 one-click publishing. Understood that i needed to then connect using iis, and convert to app, but server is not allowing me access. Checked iis settings with server support, and don't see the problem. When look at the website, get the following:
Server Error in '/' Application.

Runtime Error

Description: An exception occurred while processing your request. Additionally, another exception occurred while executing the custom error page for the first exception. The request has been terminated.

Ideas?

Christian Graus 29-Dec-12 16:14pm

I've never used it, I just deploy via FTP. But don't rely on one click to configure IIS, I don't think it even does. If you don't have access to the server to set up the app, then you have to rely on support, which is probably useless. If it works locally and not live, and they won't let you configure IIS, then tell them that you know it works, and they need to fix it.

Christian Graus 30-Dec-12 15:13pm

If your host sucks this bad, and esp if they lock you out from configuring it yourself, your best bet is to find another.