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asp.netweb-applicationsiis-6
richard
richard

Reputation: 12498

IIS 6.0 web application - Does the entire "website" need to be an "application"?

I had a website hosted in IIS. One small section of it needed asp.net. So I just right-clicked that section/directory and made it an application and a virtual directory.

Is that alright? Or does the entire "website" need to be made into an application and virtual directory?

The reason I ask is that when I try to browse to the aspx page in this "application", I am getting a parser error message "Could not load type...MyCodeBehindType" in the page directive, which seems to me to indicate that it is not finding the dll's, or even the code behind class files (which are clearly in the same directory).

EDIT:

If I do it this way, with only a subfolder of my website actually being a web application, where do I put the dlls? In a bin folder of the website the web application is within? Or in a bin folder of the web application?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 224

Answers (1)

James Allen
James Allen

Reputation: 819

Making just a folder within a website, an application, should be fine. I usually have to remember to change the version of ASP.NET from 1.1 to 2.x, that may be what's causing the error.

In order to test the configuration, start with a blank test page (blank.aspx) with just HTML. If the HTML shows up, you know IIS is serving .NET pages.

If there is a problem with ASP.NET not being correctly registered for IIS, you could try re-registering it. Open the following folder:

%WindowsDir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\x.x.x\

and run:

aspnet_regiis.exe -i

Upvotes: 2

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