Our company have 2 current website is hosted on a windows server 2003. The web sites are built in Classic ASP and use a MSIDXS provider to connect to a particular data source/indexing service catalogue (one for each website) and display the results of an SQL search based on a string parameter back onto the ASP page.
We are in the process of moving these websites across to a Windows server 2012, which no longer support indexing service:
Confirmation on Microsoft website
As such our IT department has installed Windows Search via the Roles within the server management on the 2012 server (we can only FTP to the server for security reasons) but we can't find any information about how we can connect our ASP page to the windows search service, define where it should search in order to produce search results.
Has anybody else had this issue and resolved it?
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I have developed ASP.NET webpage using (C) and I have a domain too but now I don't know where I can find ASP.NET free (or 3 months free) webHosting provider for pushing my ASP.NET files and connect it with my domain.
I have tried a lot in google but all of them are providing free ASP.NET along with their own SQL Server. But I don't want my data to be stored in someones server because all my ASP.NET forms are created by targeting my MS-SQL Server (which is available to connect via internet).
Is there anyone provides webhosting alone and let my webpages to store data in our MS-SQL server rather than saving it in service provider servers.
I have to show it with my organisation that the developed pages are working fine in web so based on that they will arrange local ASP.NET webhosting service for hosting our developed webpages.
Hope I made it clear.
Your suggestion/solutions will be highly helpful to me.
All ASP.Net (Windows) web hosting providers offer ASP.Net with MS SQL Server databases, it does not mean that you have to host your MS SQL databases in their Shared SQL Server mandatorily. If your own MS SQL Server is configured for Remote Connections, you can host MS SQL database in your own Server and connect it to ASP.Net application hosted at some hosting provider. You just have to specify an IP address of SQL Server in connection string of your website.
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You can get Microsoft Azure access for free through their Dreamspark program.
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I have an internal website in ASP CLASSIC working in my local server (third party host company).
The company now wants to put all sites on your central server - and cut all "3rd party hosts"
Then, I receive a memo from IS - "Our Server supports only ASP.NET and SQL SERVER"
My website will run 100% on this server?
or I need to reprogram in ASP.NET?
tks!
It depends on the settings of new server and you have to ask server administrators.
Here is a guide to activating ASP support on IIS:
http://www.iis.net/learn/application-frameworks/running-classic-asp-applications-on-iis-7-and-iis-8/classic-asp-not-installed-by-default-on-iis
(Also they may have to consider supporting 32 bits applications if you have problem connecting to databases)
I have a ASP.NET Web Application, based on layering architecture (DAL, Model & View), .NET Framework 4.0, C# as Server Side language, SQL Server 2008, SAP Crystal Reports. Currently it is hosted on a local server. Now client want to host it at some online server. I was thinking to host it on Azure, as it is getting very hot these days.
Is it possible that I can host my web application at Azure, without making any change in it? As It is very matured and bug free. I don't want to make any change in it and don't want to test everything again.
You can start by taking the entire website and hosting it on Azure Websites.
You can play around with Azure Websites here : https://trywebsites.azurewebsites.net
Try creating an Azure Website by login in through the Azure Management Portal
We have an ASP.NET application written in Visual Studio 2003 (c#) using SQL Server 2000 as database. It’s an old web application that our clients have been using for 4+ years.
Now, we needed to upgrade the application to work on Windows Server 2008 using SQL Server 2008, both 64bit, both on the same machine. So we ported the application to Visual Studio 2008, made some needed modifications and successfully installed the application on Windows Server 2008 with database still being the old SQL Server 2000. Everything worked fine. But as soon as I modified the connection string to work with the new SQL Server 2008 64bit, it stopped working. Basically the web browser just shows – The webpage cannot be displayed; no error messages whatsoever.
I monitored the processess and event log - basically it seems that asp.net worker process is generating errors until it stops working. And I can’t figure out why. All should be fine on SQL Server 2008 side, all protocols enabled, even disabled firewall; i can connect to the instance using Management studio from the same server (64bit) and from other development machines (64bit/32bit).
Then i tried using the web application from my development machine (still Vistual Studio 2003 one, i.e. 32 bit with ASP.NET 1.1) and connect to the new SQL Server 2008 and i got „Server application unavailable“ error. Same thing happens, worker process is generating errors until it stops working.
I used IIS Diagnostic Tool to debug the moment the error occurs – all i got was basically unlimited numbers of „First chance“ exceptions (problems with msvcr80.dll, mscorwks.dll). If I limited the number of those, I also managed to get „Kernel32!TerminateProcess“ exception, which after analysis stated that it didn’t detect any problems with that; only one time i got the warning, describing that 1 client connection was executing for more than 90 seconds.
I dont think the problem is on the 64bit Windows server 2008 or SQL server 2008 side, since when, just for checking, we used Sharepoint application with the new SQL Server 2008 as database, it connected just fine.
So what am I missing with our ASP.NET application configuration/development that it cannot connect to 64 bit Sql server 2008?
Thanks and regards,
Martin.
This sounds like a configuration problem, probably a permissions problem. Your Sql Server is on a different box than the your web server? If so I would look at what user your web site is running under. Make sure that user has access to the Sql Server.
If your user does have access make sure it has access to travel the wire to your SQL Server. Try to connect to the SQL Server via Sql Management Studio with the user's credentials.
I'm having a weird problem with my web application when it is hosted on Azure. Basically the issue is that I have one page that goes to the database and when my application's connection string points to my SQL Azure DB, I get a blank response for that particular page (By blank I mean when you view source you see absolutely nothing). When I point to my normal SQL Server 2008 DB the page works fine.
On the development server and Azure development server using Visual Studio, I don't have any problems with the page when pointing to SQL Azure.
Anyone have any idea whats going on?
You need to setup firewall rules on SQL Azure to allow access.