my web hoster uses windows nt as server + IIS 6
I'm hosting an asp.net 3.5 web site and it... works great !
So my question is : why buying a win server 2003/2008 hosting instead an "old" NT if NT works great ?
What you mean Windows NT. Windows NT is not a concrete OS it is family of OS which already includes mentioned by you Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 also.
And concerning IIS : if you will choose windows 2003 you will get IIS 6 and IIS 7 if you will choose windows 2008.
So what to choose depends on your needs.
Related
I have a developing machine in Windows 7 that has a virtual machine Windows XP Mode with Windows XP professional version 2002 Sevice Pack 3. I installed visual studio environments and IIS6 into virtual, but when I open IIS manager, I can see a default web site and I cannot add a new web site due to I need two web sites with different ports. I need to do it here, ¿How can I do it? As far as I know, with XP professional I can add new web sites.
Thanks
IIS on Windows XP cannot have multiple websites running at the same time and neither can you make additional websites from the IIS Manager.
Also, you are not running IIS 6. You are running IIS 5.1 if you are on XP.
I have got MVC website. based on .NET Framework 4.5.
I am trying to deploy the website on IIS 6.0
Here are the steps I have taken
Application Pool:
I have created application pool: Company.Attendance.
NOTE: Nowhere it asked me which .NET Version I am using?
Website
a. Create new website.
b. Description: company.attendance
c. IpAddress: Server Ip Address
d. Port: 80
e. Host Header for the website: [I left blank]
f. Path: ../../Views/Home/ [All views are defined here]
g. Permissions: Read, Run, Execute, Write
h. In the website properties, under tab Home Directory I have selected the application pool created above
i. In Home Directory TAB, under Configuration.
j. I inserted aspnet_iapi.dll
When I try to browse the application. I get the following error: Page cannot be found.
Can one tell me detailed steps to deploy mvc application [.Net Framework 4.5] on IIS 6.0 [Windows Server 2003].
Regards
I am trying to deploy the website on IIS 6.0
You can't. .NET Framework 4.5 requires Windows Server 2008 at least as can be seen in the System Requirements page:
System requirements
Supported Operating System
Windows 7 Service Pack 1
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2
Windows Vista Service Pack 2
Windows Vista SP2 (x86 and x64)
Windows 7 SP1 (x86 and x64)
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (x64)
Windows Server 2008 SP2 (x86 and x64)
Hardware Requirements:
1 GHz or faster processor
512 MB of RAM
850 MB of available hard disk space (x86)
2 GB hard drive (x64)
The latest .NET framework version you could install on Windows Server 2003 is .NET 4.0.
You need at least IIS 7.0.
Here are the requirements for .NET 4.5 framework:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8z6watww%28v=vs.110%29.aspx
You're going to have to use .NET 4.0, which porting your project over shouldn't be too painstaking.
Take your project and change compatibility to 4.0 for framework.
Fix some of the errors, and EF errors you may get, and repush to the IIS 6.0 server.
You need to ensure all the runtimes are installed, and the app is running on the
.NET 4.0 pool.
IIS 6 is part of Windows Server 2003 (and technically XP 64-bit).
.Net 4.5 cannot be installed on Windows Server 2003, thus IIS is not supported.
I copied my IIS 8 metabase (Windows Server 2012) and to an IIS 7.5 (Windows 2008 R2) box. It is working fine. Is there an official statement by Microsoft that confirms that the IIS 8 metabase is backward compatible with IIS 7.5?
We have been running this for a while now without any problems. The only setting that we use and that is not backward compatible is the sslFlags (on configuration/system.applicationHost/sites/site/bindings/binding[protocol="https). So after copying the metabase, we just deleted that attribute and things are fine.
Migrated an apps to Windows Azure - previous platform was windows server 2008 R2. When I try to configure os it gives me two options with Windows Server 2008 SP2 being default. Are there any known issues of selecting Windows Server 2008 R2? Any performance implications. I was assuming that since R2 was released later and had some enhancements related to virtualization etc it should be better.
Yes, I'd go for Windows Server 2008 R2, which is based on the Windows 7 kernel rather than the Vista kernel used by Windows Server 2008 SP2.
I'd expect that Microsoft make the 2008 SP2 option available for Azure customers that have not yet tested their applications under the newer platform.
I have checked the following during turning on Windows features:
IIS,IIS Compatibility and under WWW I have checked .NET extensibility.I do not see an ASP.NET option to check.Will these be enough to have IIS running or am I missing something.
I do not see the IIS page when I type localhost in my browser.Please help.
Your version of Vista does not support ASP on IIS. You'll have to either install asp or upgrade your version of Vista to:
Windows Vista Home Premium Edition
Windows Vista Professional Edition
Windows Vista Ultimate Edition
If you're trying to set up a web server you can take a look at Microsoft's Dreamspark site.
If you're a student and have the capability of proving it you can download a copy of Windows 2003 Server and use it for educational purposes.