Hi folks,

I figured that it's been a long time since this thread has seen any action, but even though my site is doing great where it is now, I've been still doing some personal experiments with Abyss Web Server just for my own education and curiosity.  I correctly set up a local mySQL database for that was part of the issue the first time I tried it, and I made sure that the declaration was set up correctly in web.config (I didn't worry about User.Config since it's not a public site I'm setting up at the moment), and I got some very strange errors.  After copying the wwwroot folder into the ASP.net directory under Abyss' Htdocs folder, as well as making sure that the setup from the MySQL data layer had been copied over the MSSQL stuff, and that the bin directory had been overwritten with mySQL related Dll's, I navigated to http://localhost/setup.  I was then greeted with the message of a struggling Firefox 3 to connect to the server.  I continually received the message "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost."  So, just to see what would happen, on my next try to connect, I omitted the /setup part of the address, and instead simply typed http://localhost.  I then got the index of the virtual directory ASP.net under Abyss' folder.  (exactly what was supposed to happen).  I then navigated to the setup script from there, and I was greeted with a configuration error.  it said something about lines 710 and 712 in the web.config file.  It mentioned something about an encryption key as well as saying that the error may be caused by a misconfigured virtual directory in IIS.  What did I do?  And Joe, I remember you telling me in previous posts that you got this to work before?  How exactly did you do it?  Any input would be great. 

Thanks,

Katherine

Hi,

I haven't been able to try that since my computer is under monitoring right at the moment on a message board, but that's definitely in the cards.  Thanks for the info, and I'll definitely work at it.  Abyss is still in the cards though, and I'm slowly working on that with a combination of folks who understand the different configuration methods.  I had screwed up on that as well since Abyss.conf is similar to Web.config, and I had misunderstood that.  That was my bad.  I am still curious about the steps you took to get Mojo to install on Abyss.  I understand that Abyss is not a mainstream server, but it is still a server nonetheless, and any server that has native ASP.net support should be considered as an option.  I disagree with microsoft's view that third party servers should not support their technology. 

Thanks and i'm sorry for being such a pain in everyone's butt,,

Katherine

Hi again,

I'm sorry for not clarifying.  What I meant by monitoring is that the board that is helping me try and solve a host of problems with my laptop right now has a rule that during fixes or checks, they don't want you downloading, installing, uninstalling, or editing anything.  I think my other problems with all this is that in the middle of all of this, I've had a crippled framework installation of Framework 3.5 (which seems to be gone).  I mean it's there, but it's not recognized.  My helper volunteering her time tells me that she's not sure what it is, that it could be malware, it could be just some registry corruption, software installation issues, but after we check to make sure it's not any kind of malware, I think i'll tackle this framework thing as well so that I can resume my learning of the C# language in peace.  That's why I haven't been able to play with any of the web matrix stuff yet.  Well anyway, just an update.  I just thought I'd give you a little explanation. 

Thanks for all of your support,

Katherine

PS.  By the way, did you look on my site?  In the menu, you'll see the acknowledgements page.