My webhoster changed my domain to a new server with IIS 7, Windows 2008 and MS SqlServer (previously MS SqlServer Express was used on the old server).

As the site gave an error I decided to upgrade to the newest mojoPortal version (2.3.3.4b - mssql, deployment files).

This still gave errors so I decided to do a test installation on my own Windows 7 machine.

First a made a virtual directory manually with IIS Manager. MojoPortal did not run because of security problems.

So next I created a virtual directory by creating a new web project with VisualStudio 2008. I deleted all files in this virtual directory and copied the mojoPortal 2.3.3.4b-mssql installation files to it. I also copied all styling an image files of my old site to the correct places under the Data directory.

The virtual directory is:  C:\Users\Johan\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\mojoTest\mojoTest

The application still gave security errors. Someone on internet suggested to change the Identity of the ApplicationPool to NetworkServer (in Windows 7 the default Identity is AppPoolIdentity!). Now finally the application was able to get running and executed the setup/default.aspx file succesfully.

My original styling was in place, but no images were displayed. I have all my images in the following directory under the new virtual directory:

C:\Users\Johan\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\mojoTest\mojoTest\Data\Sites\1\Images\

I discovered that mojoPortal looks for the images in the following directory:

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Data\Sites\1\Images  (of course this directory did not exist).

After creating this directory and copying all images to it, all worked fine!

If I now upload a new image as an admin of my local site, it is placed in the expected folder under the virtual directory. But it is not displayed on a page because mojoPortal looks for it in the wrong place in the images folder under inetpub\wwwroot.

Of course I can manully copy new images to the mentioned images folder, but this behavior is so strange that I want to fix it. Does anybody have the same experience and more important, does anyone have some advice to get this fixed?

I am using Ms SqlServer 2005 Express on my local machine.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Johan Stringer

Hi Joe,

Thanks for your clear explanation.

Actually the production site is installed in a subdomain :   home.tfodotnet.nl
(on the production server, the home directory is a subdirectory inside the root directory).

I always use subdomains to install mojoPortal in production situations. If I install in the root, the mojoPortal web.config in the root makes it impossible to install other webapplications inside the root of the domain.

How do I simulate a subdomain on my developer PC? Your explanation sounds as if the behaviour of an installation in a subdomain works the same as an installation in the root of a website.

Of course I want to be able to install multiple webapplications in the IIS of my developer machine. I see two possibilities, but I don't know how to implement them:

1. Use subdomains under the default website of my developer PC.  Can this be done? If so, how?

2. Create multiple websites on my developer PC.  If I try to add a new website, I must enter a domain name, and an IP address. Is there some trick to add new websites without acquiring extra domains for this purpose?

Greetings,

Johan Stringer

Hi Joe,

Thanks a lot! spoofing via the hosts file works fine for me.

The developer version of the production now correctly finds its images in the virtual directory.

Johan Stringer