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Nick Gotch
Nick Gotch

Reputation: 9407

Issue Running RIA Services on IIS 5

I'm setting up an environment for testing a Silverlight app with RIA Services in IIS 5.1. I'm getting an error message on the first service call saying "The specified resource was not found."

This only occurs when I deploy the project to my local IIS 5 setup, it works fine in the Visual Studio hosted web server. I was having this issue with IIS 6 too but fixed the issue when I selected the virtual directory and selected "Convert to Application." Problem is, IIS 5 doesn't have this function (that I can find, anyway.)

Anyone have experience deploying RIA Services on IIS 5? Scouring the web I've only found related issues with Azure and other fixes that didn't help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 887

Answers (1)

Ian Ringrose
Ian Ringrose

Reputation: 51897

You may find life less painful running Windows Server 2008 in a virtual machine. (I don’t think the developers of RIA will be running on XP these days!)

If you have other reasons, upgrading your machine to windows 7 will give you a version of IIS more like what you get on a server, however using a virtual machine is lower risk.

Sorry for the bad news, but XP is rather old…. (However I still have 2 machines running it)

Upvotes: 1

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