Virtualizing .NET (aspx) site

Teamsite 6.1 (SP2) Windows

Hi,

I'm having problems previewing my .NET website through Teamsite. Basically my problem is that my pages use a .net library located in the "bin" directory and when I preview it can't seem to locate the binary:

"The type or namespace name 'xxxxx' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"

I went through the stages in this article https://support.interwoven.com/kb/kb_show_article2.asp?ArticleID=49749 to add the ASPNET user to the Teamsite Preview group, make the workarea an application and add a virtual directory for aspnet_client. And prior to adding the dll reference to the presentation template the .NET site was virtualizing without error.

My file structure is as follows:

[workarea name]
    |
    |_ templatedata
    |
    |_ web
         |
         |_ bin
         |_ [rest of site]

So i tried making "web" an application in IIS to ensure it recognises the bin directory - but that didn't work. I also wondered whether i needed to the same as I had done with the aspnet_client and so tried adding the bin directory as a virtual directory under the workarea but that didn't work.

Is there something I'm missing or something I need to add to iw.cfg?

thanks in advance - hope I've provided enough information for someone to be able to help me :-)

Ani

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Gregg Faus

Ani,

I never had success with just what IWOV lists in this KB. I had to do some additional things to get it working correctly. See my post from some time ago that lists the steps.

In this setup I just create app space under any workarea or staging area.

Anip

Thanks gfaus

I'm finding it so hard to find anything out about virtualizing .NET sites. I'm sorry to say I didn't get anywhere with the suggestions in your other post.

It's handling .NET itself fine, i'm not getting the "failed to start monitoring changes" type error having added the aspnet user to the Teamsite Preview group and making the workarea directory an application in IIS. But whatever I try I just can't get it to see the dll in the bin directory.

Making a virtual directory for the bin didn't work but I found that if I duplicated (not happy 'bout that) the bin directory thus:

[workarea]
    |
    |_bin
    |
    |_templatedata
    |
    |_web
       |
       |_bin

then it will both preview and virtualize. I know this isn't right, there must be a better way. I thought the answer would be in the iw.cfg remapping but I can't get it right.

Ani

Gregg Faus

Here is what I have in my iw.cfg:
[global_default_map]
_docroot=/web/
/images/=/web/images/
/include/=/web/include/

This supports a workarea structure like

[workarea]
      |
      |-templatedata
      |-web
           |
           |-bin

I then create application space on "web". Try that out.

Anip

Thanks heaps - I *think* it's all working now.

I have the following in iw.cfg:

_docroot=/web
/templatedata/=/templatedata/
/bin/=/web/bin/

I don't know if that's overkill because the docroot definition should have told it where to find bin without further instruction... but while it works I'm leaving it there!

The part I'd missed out was making the "web" directory an application in IIS. My IIS now looks like this


[WORKAREA] 
      |
      |_ [workarea a] [APPLICATION]
      |       |   
      |       |_  aspnet_client [VIRTUAL DIRECTORY]  
      |       |_  templatedata 
      |       |_  web [APPLICATION]
      |              |_ bin
      |              |_ ....
      |
      |_ [workarea b] [APPLICATION]
              |   
              |_  aspnet_client [VIRTUAL DIRECTORY]  
              |_  templatedata 
              |_  web [APPLICATION]
                     |_ bin
                     |_ ....  

[STAGING] [APPLICATION]
      |
      |_  aspnet_client [VIRTUAL DIRECTORY]  
      |_  templatedata 
      |_  web [APPLICATION]
                     |_ bin

I've typed this all here so you (or anyone) can sanity check that I'm doing the right thing.

I've tried other ways of doing it. I tried just having the "web" directory (not workarea) as an application with the aspnet_client virtual directory under that, while that's fine for Virtualization it leaves Preview with errors. It definitely appear to require both levels as applications. As I understand it I will need to apply the same changes in IIS (aspnet_client and applications) to any new workarea that is going to serve .NET - is that right?

thanks again
Ani

Anip

I don't know what kind of caching there is involved with this and at what point I had it right but now - 10 minutes later - I'm getting the same errors I started with

everything is as it was in my last post

help?

Gregg Faus

These two lines aren't necessary in your iw.cfg:
/templatedata/=/templatedata/
/bin/=/web/bin/

The *only* application space you should need is on the "web" directories. See my attachment for an ASP.Net based website that includes a bin and templatedata directory. I don't use any client-side validation so I don't have an aspnet_client directory. However, I do know it works in my envinronment.