I have got 2 Server 1. IIS Server (Internet Access), 2. File Server (No Internet Access) but both the server on the same network. I want to display the pdf from my File server but when i run the website using asp.net its works.. But When i host the website its doesn't show the pdf. The Page comes Blanks.. My Friend Told me that you need to use impersonation but after that also it dosen't work.. Any Help will be really appreciated on this.
(Asp.Net Development Server) :- Worked
After hosting the website in IIS When i view the website using my Internal IP Address It is not showing the Pdf Below is the screenshot
It sounds as if you will have to use UNC to get your file.
It would be best if you could tell us what error are you getting on the hosted env.
I would also check : Determining if file exists using c# and resolving UNC path
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I'm fairly new to developing with ASP.NET and in general. I have created a simple data-driven web application that will be used to display images the colors of which will be changed depending on certain criteria. I used Visual Studio 2019 to create it. When I test/run it from within VS 2019 using the "play" button, it runs perfectly and the page opens in my browser just as you would expect.
My issue is that I'm trying to deploy it to the IIS and host it from my machine here at work, so others can access the pages. I have published the application to a local file on my C:\ drive. I then open up IIS Manager and create the website by pointing to that local file. Now, when I choose to browse that site from the IIS manager, at first I was getting an error saying that access is denied.
Then I followed the instructions to configure the security on that local file folder to allow IIS_USRS to access the file, but when I run it, I just get a page that tries to load indefinitely.
What am I doing wrong? If I point the IIS Manager to the files after saving them to a location on my company's network, I again get the access is denied error.
Do I understand it correctly that IIS needs permission to access the files? If so, how do I configure it that way other than what I already tried? If I need to provide further information, please let me know. Thanks so much for your support.
Im using ssh&xming to upload files to my server. I have no access to the settings of the server, so I dont know if IIS is installed.
Im trying to run a asp.net project on my server, but all I get when Im trying to run the webpage is the source code.
how can I display the page? is there any way to install IIS on SSH without any access to the settings of the server? or to upload some other file to the server that can help run aspx files?
how to display asp pages on server without iis
thanx
No you cannot install IIS (or anything else) if you don't have administrator access to the server.
And no you cannot run aspx files without IIS. Maybe, just maybe there are ways to do that if you really wanted to, but I'm not aware of that. And why should you? That's like trying to make a boat fly while there are already airplanes available.
Just to begin I am a beginner in ASP, and havign some difficulty in deploying my first application.
I made a asp.net project in VS2008, and I ws trying to deploy it on another machine and following are the steps that I did:
right clicked on website and published set loaction to c:\inetpub\wwwroot and pasted my app to this folder.
Then I went to control Panel- admin tool- IIS and there it showed the website which I copied then went to its properties added documents, set ASP>NET version, it was blank by default. Then edited the configuration and under authentication changed its mode to none.
And then when I cick on the app in IIS and browse it showed the desired output, but I need to know how to open the same app in browser.
Thanks
If I've understood this correctly - it does depend on how the website has been set up in IIS. At it's most simple it would be
As the default website
http://[external IP of webserver]/default.aspx
As a virtual under the website
http://[external IP of webserver]/[virtualName]/default.aspx
Assuming there is a file called default.aspx (insert your own)
if default.aspx is specified as a default document for the site
http://[external IP of webserver]
http://[external IP of webserver]/[virtualName]
if you are using binding to a specific IP and or port (look in IIS, left handside at the binding link - see image below)
http://hostname: optionalpost
Apologies if I have misunderstood
EDIT
To check whether the site is active at all and to get a better idea of what the external URL is then on the left hand side of IIS will be browse to website. Click this to check whether the site comes up at all.
If it does then the URL should be obvious. It could be one with a host header i.e. looks like a normal URL i.e.
http://mytestsite.com
If it is in this format then you may not be able to browse externally if you can't resolve this hostheader to the IP of the box. To get around this then edit you host file and add a mapping from the url to the external IP of the box.
Host header is at following in windows 7 (or windows generally i think)
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
Please back this file up before editing it
I have an application that displays PDF files via Crystal Reports in a new window to the user. This works perfectly on my development machine and when accessing the site directly on the production server (remote desktop running browser installed on server) but when i access the site from the out side over the internet i get the error. Other reports display fine and this report used to work until i recently made some changes and re-installed the site. All code is in try ... catch but not info is being written to my error files. Cant figure out why it would work locally on the server but not over the internet and only this one report.
Have tried the System.Web attributes maxRequestLength and executionTimeout.
The Server is:
Windows Web Server 2008
IIS 7
Framework 4
This turned out to be an issue with the crystal report file, i never found out exactly why but i narrowed it down to one of the fields causing the problem, remove the field and no problem. I think it may have been linked to the reports xml based data source but cannot prove it.
Probably a firewall setting. Please make sure your firewall explicitly allows incoming connections to the TCP port 80 (or 443 for https, or anything else if you are accessing the site via another port) and try again.
I have migrated our company web apps from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2. The are all .Net 2.0 classic web apps. They all seem to work fine, except when accessing any resource with a path starting with /Reports/...
In one app the physical path on disk is c:\Websites\app_name\WebService\Reports... In this reports folder PDF files are dynamically generated and written to disk. They can be accessed via a URL such as this:
http://domain_name/Reports/xxxx.pdf
where /Reports is a virtual directory mapping to the physical path above. This worked fine on 2003 server & IIS6 but on IIS7.5 & 2008 R2 I keep getting the following error:
The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.
Requested URL: /Reports/xxxx.pdf
I have another web app that generates the reports dynamically and streams them directly to the client browser for saving to the local disk, rather than being written to disk on the server. Similar to the above example, the page that generates the report is found under path as follows:
/Reports/Viewer.aspx
In this case there is no virtual directory being used. The URL referenced in the browser is:
http://another_domain_name//Reports/Viewer.aspx
Once again I get the same error message as above... HTTP 404 - The resource cannot be found.
I have tried all the permission settings under the sun to try and get it working but to no avail. I've use built in accounts, created new accounts with permissions from very minimal right up to full admin rights. I've also played with the new AppPool Identities with no success. It doesn't seem to matter what permissions I set specifically on the directories, or the accounts configured for the app pool or basic settings on each website itself.
Once thing I have discovered though, is that whilst the browser is getting the HTTP 404 error, there is no record of this request appearing in the IIS log files for each website!! This is really confusing me, as I would definitely expect to see a failed 404 log entry on the requested resource.
Something else to note, I'm running SQL Server 2008 Enterprise on this machine with Reporting services installed and enabled. It's a stretch, but could there be some contention over the /Reports path in my websites vs something else running on the machine? I'm using different bindings/host headers for each individual domain and website running on the server.
Check Reports folder conflict. And remember, Google is faster than SO.
IIS gives 404 errors for more than just File Not Found these days - so it doesn't give away too much to attackers. Have a look at the event log (application), and also try accessing it from the server itself.
The other thing to check is that your IIS app pools are correctly configured - especially with the correct pipeline mode and .NET framework version.
At a command prompt, type:
netsh http show urlacl
See if there are any bindings with /reports/ --maybe a left over from a SQL Server Reporting Services install?
v/r
BK