Cassini Sample Web Server

Re: A simple HOW TO for getting Cassini working with XP Home and Visual Studio 2003

ismailsidhpuri — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:02:57 GMT

Hi everyone. Nice post. Very helpful.

I haven't tried out those steps, but i think these steps are to be followed everytime you create a new project in VS2003. Isn't there a solution where we don't have to repeat these steps in every new website? If someone finds it out please tell.

Thanks

Re: A simple HOW TO for getting Cassini working with XP Home and Visual Studio 2003

Marceu Filho — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:31:59 GMT

For those who had problems with the 80 port, in my case I had the same problem. Install "Remote Task Manager" program and it will tell you what program is blocking the 80 port. IM my case was skype.

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Re: A simple HOW TO for getting Cassini working with XP Home and Visual Studio 2003

UltiDev — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:22:00 GMT

A few points:

Off-topic:
Moderator probably needs to move these port 80 questions to another thread, since the issues is not related to the "How to" thread.
On-topic:
Servers like IIS, Apache, WebSphere, PWS, and, all other big guys may take port 80. Check if any of those are installed.
If you make a redistributable ASP.NET application, it's not a good idea to assume that target system will have port 80 free. You will need either to find a free port, or use some specific port other than 80 that is unlikely to be taken already. Version of Cassini web server from UltiDev finds and assigns free port to your application during installation on target system. It also has an API allowing to check if preferred port is free.

Re: A simple HOW TO for getting Cassini working with XP Home and Visual Studio 2003

Riscy — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:18:01 GMT

I am having similar problem...same error on port 80.
Is there way round this or how to identify who using port 80.
Thanks

Re: A simple HOW TO for getting Cassini working with XP Home and Visual Studio 2003

chr0n1c — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:03:04 GMT

I get an error Cassini Managed web server failed to start listening on port:80 on this step
RUNNING CASSINI
1. Start Cassini ('CassiniWebServer.exe')
2. Set Application Directory: C:\inetpub\wwwroot
3. Set Server Port: 80
4. Set Virtual Root: /

Possible conflict with another web server on the same port. However as far as I know there isnt -_-

can anyone help?

Re: A simple HOW TO for getting Cassini working with XP Home and Visual Studio 2003

paullySC — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:17:28 GMT

I tried the directions in the first post and got the following error when I tried to create the ASP application in VS .NET 2003, I run windows 2000.

Web Access Failed

Unable to create Web project 'WebApplication1'. The file path 'c:\inetpub\wwwroot\WebApplication1 does not correspond to the URL 'http://localhost/WebApplication1'. The two need to map to the same server location. HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error

Can anyone help?

paully

Re: A simple HOW TO for getting Cassini working with XP Home and Visual Studio 2003

Blake05 — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 05:07:22 GMT

Hristo, I guess its a trial and error way to do #3. I guess if it works dont touch it :). But yes good point, Errors may arise if you dont include the application name.

Re: A simple HOW TO for getting Cassini working with XP Home and Visual Studio 2003

Hristo — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 05:43:29 GMT

Hi,

I think I found a better solution...

Where silentmemory says:

3. Set Command Line Arguments to location of project and port to use (e.g. '"c:\inetpub\wwwroot" 80')

In that step You need to put in the path as "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\Your_application_Name"

I found that with trial and error because my VB code wouldn't work without the Inherit="" command in the aspx file, but with the command I constantly got an annoying message in the IE that my inherit command had errors. Now everything works OK.

Thanks for the nice instructions silentmemory. I just set it up today and you helped me learn a lot new things.

Re: A simple HOW TO for getting Cassini working with XP Home and Visual Studio 2003

wouter — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:08:04 GMT

I've found a solution for you problem:
1) Start cassini
2) Open or create your project using VS
3) program = "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
comand line = "http://localhost/x/y.aspx"
4) Now you can use the start button to test your page

Re: A simple HOW TO for getting Cassini working with XP Home and Visual Studio 2003

Martychak — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:26:36 GMT

This was perfect. exactly what I needed. I printed it out to use again.

Thanks!

A simple HOW TO for getting Cassini working with XP Home and Visual Studio 2003

silentmemory — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:12:01 GMT

It seems the same questions keep cropping up, hopefully my own notes might help those who haven't the time to trawl through the old threads looking for information. Most of the stuff included came from this forum, it may not be complete, entirely accurate or best practise, but it works for me.

SETUP
1. Download and install the .NET Framework SDK (installs GACUTIL.EXE)
2. From the start menu select 'Start/Control Panel/System/Advanced/Environment Variables', and add a new User Variable called 'PATH' with a value of 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322' (or wherever you've installed the .NET Framework to)
3. Download Cassini Sample Web Server (http://asp.net/Projects/Cassini/Download/download.aspx)
4. Install Cassini, open a command window and navigate to the installation directory (e.g. C:\Cassini)
5. Type 'build.bat'
6. Create directory 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot', share as 'wwwroot$' with permission for network users to change files.

RUNNING CASSINI
1. Start Cassini ('CassiniWebServer.exe')
2. Set Application Directory: C:\inetpub\wwwroot
3. Set Server Port: 80
4. Set Virtual Root: /

CREATING NEW ASP.NET APPLICATIONS IN VISUAL STUDIO
1. In Visual Studio select 'File/New Project'
2. Select a Visual basic/C#/J# project type, and choose 'ASP.NET Web Application'
3. Set Location: http://localhost/ApplicaionName
4. Ignore the two errors

Studio creates three folders:
a) C:\Documents and Settings\usernamel\My Documents\Visual Studio Projects\ApplicationName (contains the .sln file)
b) C:\Documents and Settings\username\VSWebCache\MACHINENAME\ApplicationName (the web projects cache)
c) C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ApplicationName (the actual project files)

DEBUGGING
1. In Project Properties/Configuration Properties/Debugging, set Debug Mode to 'Program', click Apply
2. Set Start Application to point to Cassini Web Server (e.g. 'C:\Proram Files\Cassini\CassiniWebServer.exe')
3. Set Command Line Arguments to location of project and port to use (e.g. '"c:\inetpub\wwwroot" 80')
4. Stop any existing running instance of Cassini (or set the port in Step7 above to be '8080'), and run the project. No errors should be shown, but nor is the default webform because it's no longer the startup object, Cassini is. How do I make the form visible when running in Debug mode?!

The project can be started without debugging, but it doesn't appear to do anything? Right-clicking on the WebForm1.aspx and selecting 'view in browser' gives an authentication error, easily fixed by commenting out the authentication line in the Web.config file. Similarly, the whole of the sessionState block needs to be commented out.

The 'inherits' tag in Line1 of the Webform1.aspx code may also need to be removed. This appears to be dynamic code though, it sometimes reverts back to trying to inherit, and I'm unsure how to change it.

Feedback on my debugging questions would be appreciated, thanks.