Hello,

Any advise is much appreciated.

I am new to asp and have a question you may be willing to answer.

If so, here it is:

I am using a personal site starter kit from asp.net
I am using a windows hosting account with go daddy.
everything seems to be set up fine on godaddys side.
My starter kit works on my computer.
Won't work using a browser accessing the site.
hello world page works.

Any tips or thoughts for me?

Can't thank you enough.

Zoe
 

You need to describe what you mean by "won't work".  There are miilions of possible reasons for something "not working".  Do you get an error message? If so, can you show it - along with the code that causes the error?  The error message is intended to help narrow the possibilities down to a handful at most.

I would say, however,  that often, upload-related problems are due to either a file that exceeds the sie limit or incorrect permissions on the directory that the file is being written to.

 Hi Mike,

First off let me thank you for your time! I am very happy you are trying to help me. 

I am sorry I did not provide more information. The error is a generic one I think.

Again, I downloaded the personal starter site, set it up locally and tested it.

Upon up-load to go-daddy the error I receive is: 

Server Error in '/' Application.

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Runtime Error

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="Off"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

I am running on go daddys hosting service:

Yes - it is a generic error. The Details section of the error message tells you what you should do next in order to reveal the specific error.  When you have amended your web.config file, and uploaded it, you should then get a "proper" error message which should also highlight the lines of code that cause the error to occur.  If the cause isn't obvious to you from the error message, the next best thing is to paste the error message into Google, and see if any of the search results help you.  If not, then paste it here.

 I am lost.  Here it is. Thanks so much!

Server Error in '/' Application.

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An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server.  When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)

Line 5:  	void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e) {
Line 6:  		SiteMap.SiteMapResolve += new SiteMapResolveEventHandler(AppendQueryString);
Line 7:  		if (!Roles.RoleExists("Administrators")) Roles.CreateRole("Administrators");
Line 8:  		if (!Roles.RoleExists("Friends")) Roles.CreateRole("Friends");
Line 9:  	}

[SqlException (0x80131904): An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server.  When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)]
   System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) +800131
   System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj) +186
   System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Connect(ServerInfo serverInfo, SqlInternalConnectionTds connHandler, Boolean ignoreSniOpenTimeout, Int64 timerExpire, Boolean encrypt, Boolean trustServerCert, Boolean integratedSecurity, SqlConnection owningObject) +737554
   System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.AttemptOneLogin(ServerInfo serverInfo, String newPassword, Boolean ignoreSniOpenTimeout, Int64 timerExpire, SqlConnection owningObject) +114
   System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.LoginNoFailover(String host, String newPassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance, SqlConnection owningObject, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, Int64 timerStart) +421
   System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.OpenLoginEnlist(SqlConnection owningObject, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, String newPassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance) +181
   System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds..ctor(DbConnectionPoolIdentity identity, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, Object providerInfo, String newPassword, SqlConnection owningObject, Boolean redirectedUserInstance) +173
   System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions options, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningConnection) +133
   System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.CreatePooledConnection(DbConnection owningConnection, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnectionOptions options) +30
   System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.CreateObject(DbConnection owningObject) +424
   System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.UserCreateRequest(DbConnection owningObject) +66
   System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.GetConnection(DbConnection owningObject) +494
   System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.GetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection) +82
   System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionClosed.OpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory) +105
   System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.Open() +111
   System.Web.DataAccess.SqlConnectionHolder.Open(HttpContext context, Boolean revertImpersonate) +84
   System.Web.DataAccess.SqlConnectionHelper.GetConnection(String connectionString, Boolean revertImpersonation) +197
   System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider.RoleExists(String roleName) +482
   System.Web.Security.Roles.RoleExists(String roleName) +242
   ASP.global_asax.Application_Start(Object sender, EventArgs e) in d:\hosting\zoekeen\Global.asax:7

Did you deploy database into GoDaddy server? If you didn't, or you don't know how, find more informations here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/12/22/recipe-deploying-a-sql-database-to-a-remote-hosting-environment-part-1.aspx

 Got it to work! Thank you! One last question. I can't see the link once I log in as admin to the  ASP.net configuration  as described in the instructions.

I need to approve users who wish to create accounts. Any tips here?

Thanks mucho!

Zoe 

zoekeen:

 Got it to work! Thank you! One last question. I can't see the link once I log in as admin to the  ASP.net configuration  as described in the instructions.

I need to approve users who wish to create accounts. Any tips here?

Thanks mucho!

Zoe 

The ASP.net configuration part only works locally, you will need to download a separate user management module for the kit or program one yourself.

For the stock starter kit you can get such a module from Jeremy Wadsworth's site or from the Code Library from my site.  There are others but I only remember Jeremy's site as one.

 Hi William,

Thanks for the links! I have downloaded your pwsk and am checking it out now.

I do have a burning question you may be so kind as to answer.

With the standard kit, where does the info go when someone registers on the site? The database I suppose on the server.

But I thought somehow I would receive an email or something or see their request in the admin section pending when I log in as admin.

So if you can't see the admin section of the site via the web only locally, how would you know if you have requests to "join" the site if that data is on the servers database?

I am confused and this does not make any sense to me. I would think you would need to have a module that is "web-based" to handle this like you do.

I had to run a database wizzard to map my local database, then run the script on the server to map that database and change my links to the host database to get the stock psk to work.

This does not make sense to me. Do you open the site remotely somehow in VS? Thanks for your time!

 

zoekeen:

With the standard kit, where does the info go when someone registers on the site? The database I suppose on the server.

Yes when you enable the built-in membership support the data is stored in a specific set of tables (prefixed with aspnet_).  This has to be setup on a server database before you enable the support.  There is an amazing post with links to everything about ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles, Forms Authentication, and Security Resources on Scott Guthries blog.  It is worth checking out as well bookmarking since it is the largest I have found during my travels on tech blogs.

zoekeen:

But I thought somehow I would receive an email or something or see their request in the admin section pending when I log in as admin.

So if you can't see the admin section of the site via the web only locally, how would you know if you have requests to "join" the site if that data is on the servers database?

I am confused and this does not make any sense to me. I would think you would need to have a module that is "web-based" to handle this like you do.

The only support for email notification is the built in "Forgot Password" feature, but this depends on how you configure the storage of passwords.

As for the email notification when a user joins the kit does not support that feature, however you can program it.  The user management module on my site has code that does this.  It also sends out a confirm email to the user that they have to click on to get access to the site.  It's pretty simple code to implement so you or anyone probably can rip the code out and implement it any way you like.

zoekeen:

This does not make sense to me. Do you open the site remotely somehow in VS? Thanks for your time!

Do you mean how do you update your site now after it has been "launched" live?

 

William,

You are awesome! This is great info.  I will study this today and see what I can learn.
By the way, I have learned more here that I have in school. Thank you! Thank you!

OK, 

I can make up-dates to the site once it is live, but am still kinda confused about a few things I was unable to word properly in my last post.

1. Say a new user requests an account online with the (PSK) stock. How do you know? The data is in the database online and my local copy
is local (Un changed) so when you go threw VS and pull up the account manager you are looking at the local database, not the one on the server.
Also my web.config file is unchanged on my local computer and the one online is up-dated with the path pointing to the database online?
Does this make any sense to you? I wish I could word this better.
 

zoekeen:

but am still kinda confused about a few things I was unable to word properly in my last post

When your question changes markedly from the one you originally asked, you should really start a new thread in the appropriate forum.  That way, each thread contains one question, and (hopefully) the answer to it, so people doing searches can find stuff easily. 

Oh, and there is a Mark As Answer button on each post,  If you click that button on the post(s) that helped you, the person providing the answer gets awarded some points.  I'm sure William would appreciate that

 OK, thanks for the info. Now I know.