Installing on Fasthosts

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10/25/2012 12:56:29 PM
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Installing on Fasthosts

OK so I have read the forum fasthosts and mojoportal (http://www.mojoportal.com/Forums/Thread.aspx?pageid=5&mid=34&ItemID=3&thread=6868) and should know better. However my client insists we use their Fasthost account, which has a MySQL database and an ASP.NET 3.5 scripting in place.

So I install the files create the database and get an "internal error 500" on a friendly page. So in order to debug I set <customErrors mode="Off"  defaultRedirect="Error.htm">  and even set <trace enabled="true"  for a bit but still came up with a friendly message page and no diagnostics.

Fasthost allows custom error pages to be set (but only for 401 and 403 message) so I have set these to error.htm but still get the friendly page with no diagnostics

I have now also added ASP scripting as well as the ASP.NET

I was also trying to look to see where I could give user access to the DATA folder but can't.

Now to narrow down the issue and to see if the connection string is OK I have run the site locally but with the remote database server connection string and it setup up the site fine. (I am not fully sure what impact this has, as if I now want to run the site on the Fasthost server, whether any of the local files have changed or is it just the database)

However as the (Fasthost database - Local files) installation was successful I try again by using www.Mydomain.com rather than www.Mydomain.co/setup/default.aspx but same thing happens 500 error on a friendly page so no diagnostics.

Any suggestions on how to configure Fasthosts to run Mojoportal?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10/26/2012 6:51:48 AM
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Re: Installing on Fasthosts

To get the site "working" you need to comment out the Modules and handlers section in web config.

This obviously takes away much functionality such as using friendly URLs and so breaks the menu.

Fasthost do not support this scripting, so as previously stated best to avoid.

10/26/2012 8:56:03 AM
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Re: Installing on Fasthosts

Hi,

Yes any host that limits you from having modules and handlers is a bad choice. Additionally I would not recommend anyone to install new installations under .NET 3.5.

Most mojoPortal skins rely heavily on settings from the theme.skin file and this poses a problem under .NET 3.5 medium trust hosting as discussed at the bottom of the article Understanding the theme.skin file

Best,

Joe

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