I've been trying to publish my Application to Arvixe so that my clients can see it, but have been running in to several problems.

The first few problems I fixed by setting my ASP.NET to 2.0 integrated pipelines.  That forced me to rework my web.config file a bit, by moving my <system.web>/<httpHandlers> to <system.webServer>/<handlers>.

Now I am unable to get the application to work on my development machine with Visual Studio 2005 Visual WebGUI 6.3(The resource cannot be found), and on Arvixe, the page opens the blank loading screen with the loading symbol on the top right, but doesn't go beyond that.

Any advice?  I think I'm getting a fever, so I'm out!  Thanks!

-Yumans

After reading a little more in to ASP.NET and integrated pipelines, I realized I shouldn't have had to change server settings to use integrated pipelines, so I changed it back and no errors.

But I still have the problem on the server (and not on my development machine) that on attempting to load the main page, all I get is the blank (except the spinning arrows on top right) loading page.

If I remeber correctly, a reason for this could be not having the WebGUI dlls copied over?  I have them all copied over (Gizmox.WebGUI.Common, ...Forms, ...Server both dll and xml produced by publishing).  Any idea what could be another reason for a page not loading?  Any other common mistakes?

On Arvixe, I have my application, Mysql.Data, and the WebGUI dll/xmls in Home>regmig.com>wwwroot>bin, the Web.config in the wwwroot, and some other files in wwwroot>Data.  On my development machine, things are arranged equivalently.

I feel like I'm swinging trying to hit a piñata with a bat in the dark, and some evil demon will never drop it near striking distance.

I guess my next step will be trying to see if there is some sort of setup (connecting to MySQL, loading my other configuration file, etc) that is holding up the form from loading.  But any advice is appreciated!

Thanks!

P.S. Turns out my fever was from a Sinus infection, have some good meds now.  Thanks for the well wishes, Palli!  Feeling better, but have some numb teeth due to pressure against some nerves, weird!

[UPDATE] I have a suspect!  I use Context.Config.GetDirectory() to find my custom configuration file.  Time to go home though, i'll test it out tomorrow.

Hi Yumans,

Glad to know you're feeling better...

In most cases when you have behaviour like that, it's because of unhandled exceptions on the server.

You can start by putting some error handlers in place and see where that leads you. Please view the Exception handling Wiki page which contains a few links to forum threads with tips and samples for that purpose.

Hope this helps,

Palli