I have been battling for 3 days now to get a small application running on a server. The application is a simple 2 form app with one being shown as a dialogue where you can select options from a drop down and checkboxes and pass values back to the calling form. It runs perfectly on VS2008 SP1 on Windows 7 Pro.

I have access to two servers both of which are happily running several different DNN sites. I am used to playing with IIS (I think).

My first attempts were to get it running on on a 64bit Server 2008 IIS7. I followed all the steps I could find but nothing worked - all I would ever get is a 404 Page not found or occasionally a failed to parse a URL.

 In the end I gave up and tried it on a 32 Bit Server 2003 with IIS6.

Now when I visit the URL all I get is a blank page see http://www.midnorfolknews.co.uk/mainform.wgx there is loads of page source but no content. I have tried everything - even to stripping and reinstalling VS2008 and the latest VWGUI Beta but always the same result. I have unticked the box for check file added the .wgx handler mapping rebooted the server a dozen times but still no go.

What am I doing wrong? I really want to buy this as it is ideal for a project I am undertaking but it is just too difficult to get running right.

Hi Jay, thanks for your input on this.

I ought to explain I have the luxury that both servers are dedicated and so I have remote desktop to them. The sites live on a data drive rather than the Windows install drive and the machine I am using at the moment runs 10 or so (low useage) sites (mostly DNN) on the same IP

I have followed the instructions and built to a .ashx extension so the first URL I quoted will not NOT now work as the page is on www.midnorfolknews.co.uk/MainForm.ashx
Unfortunately I have got the same result - a blank page!

Also checked that the dll's are being copied etc. also incremented the PrivateVersion just to be sure.

I have put in the same directory a simple .aspx which is at www.midnorfolknews.co.uk/Default.aspx and that works fine.

The page source looks (to me anyway) like sensible stuff and it seems strange to me at least partial functionality is working in that I get a "Are sure you want to navigate away" prompt if I refresh or close IE - so I am guessing that some of the javascript is being referenced, loaded and working OK.

Can you think of anything else I can try please?

Hi Jay,

Same result

I have also moved the whole of the site to reside in C:\Inetpub\Www_root and I am getting exactly the same results.

I thought for a second that I might have stumbled on the issue - every time I published from VS2008 there was no webconfig in the publish folder. I had seen mention of that in the forums so just copied the file from the project folder on my machine.
I discoverd, when moving to the wwwroot, that VS2008 had been putting the webconfig in the bin folder!  But even when I moved it out to the root it didn't make any difference.

If it would help, I can provide you with a login to the server to have a look at the setup yourself? I know this must be my stupidity but for the life of me I cant see what I have done wrong.

Thanks for all the help I am getting.

Julian