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404 error when uploaded

Sep 11, 2010 09:39 AM|LINK

Hi all

I have been building a site and it works fine locally but i get a 404 and it redirects to the generic error page when i upload it to FastHosts.

I contacted them and they say they think its a scripting error on my part.I dont even know where to look because ive not got any indication as to what could be the problem.

If any of you could help i would be very grateful.

The web.config looks like this ...

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
    Note: As an alternative to hand editing this file you can use the
    web admin tool to configure settings for your application. Use
    the Website->Asp.Net Configuration option in Visual Studio.
    A full list of settings and comments can be found in
    machine.config.comments usually located in
    \Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.x\Config
-->
<configuration>
	<appSettings/>
	<connectionStrings>
  <add name="ConnectionString" connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\OakmanDesign.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True"
   providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
 </connectionStrings>
	<system.web>
		<!--
            Set compilation debug="true" to insert debugging
            symbols into the compiled page. Because this
            affects performance, set this value to true only
            during development.
        -->
		<compilation debug="false" targetFramework="4.0">
		</compilation>
		<!--
            The <authentication> section enables configuration
            of the security authentication mode used by
            ASP.NET to identify an incoming user.
        -->
		<authentication mode="Windows"/>
		<!--
            The <customErrors> section enables configuration
            of what to do if/when an unhandled error occurs
            during the execution of a request. Specifically,
            it enables developers to configure html error pages
            to be displayed in place of a error stack trace.
    -->
        <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="GenericErrorPage.htm">
            <error statusCode="403" redirect="NoAccess.htm" />
            <error statusCode="404" redirect="FileNotFound.htm" />
            

        </customErrors>
        

        

		<pages theme="MainTheme" styleSheetTheme="MainTheme" controlRenderingCompatibilityVersion="3.5" clientIDMode="AutoID">
		</pages>
	</system.web>
	<!--
        The system.webServer section is required for running ASP.NET AJAX under Internet
        Information Services 7.0.  It is not necessary for previous version of IIS.
    -->
</configuration>

If you need any more information, let me know and i will happily provide it.

Thanks in advance

Dariune

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Re: 404 error when uploaded

Sep 11, 2010 12:56 PM|LINK

In web.config, customerrors part, you may try to get the mode on and see what happens:

<customErrors defaultRedirect="ErrorPage.aspx" mode="On">
    <error statusCode="500" redirect="servererror.aspx" />
    <error statusCode="404" redirect="filenotfound.aspx" />
    <error statusCode="403" redirect="AccessDenied.aspx" />
</customErrors>

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Re: 404 error when uploaded

Sep 11, 2010 01:04 PM|LINK

Is it the default home page or some other page that is causing the error? If you're having problems with the home page, check in IIS to see if Enable Default Content is selected and take a look at the documents listed for default content. Edit the list if the name of your home page isn't included, and move it to the top of the list.

Edited by SparTodd on Sep 11, 2010 01:05 PM

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Re: 404 error when uploaded

Sep 11, 2010 01:46 PM|LINK

Hello,

How did you deploy your ASP.NET site? Also it seems that you use ASP.NET 4.0, but FastHosts support ASP.NET 3.5 with their shared Windows hosting plans.

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Edited by HostingASPNet on Sep 11, 2010 01:48 PM

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Re: 404 error when uploaded

Sep 11, 2010 02:38 PM|LINK

It brings up the servererror.aspx when i add the error 500 message.

@SparTodd - Its on a remote host so i dont have direct access to their IIS (The site works fine locally)

@Hosting

Im pretty sure thats the problem is that im using 4. However when i try to change it to 3.5 i get all kinds of problems and the site stops working locally.

Edited by dariune on Sep 11, 2010 02:40 PM
Edited by dariune on Sep 11, 2010 02:41 PM

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Re: 404 error when uploaded

Sep 11, 2010 10:59 PM|LINK

Hi all

Ok i have got it partly solved. I changed the site to 3.5 and, due to the host not supporting HttpHandlers or modules in the web.config i removed them and the pages work.

However my next problem is that i built the site in VS 2010 and to create a database in that is to create an mdf file (or at least thats the only way i know how to do it) but my host doesnt support MDF files.

So i have to create a SQL database. I have created the MDF file but im not sure how to set up SQL server on my machine and more importantly how to import the data from the MDF file into a SQL database so i can put that onto my site.

Is anyone able to help me with that?

Sorry for all the questions