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Hosting a Websharper Example program in IIS 8.0
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The Websharper Learn page has a Sitelet example that just displays the current time. The running of this example is hosted in IIS Express. Just to help me understand how web sites are configured I thought I would host this example using IIS 8.0 on Windows 8.1. I have entered the correct physical path, given read\write permissions to IUSR. IIS is able to read the Web.config file. The problem I have with this example is that the code creates the initial index.html page. So at the moment running this example in IIS 8.0 fails because there will not be an initial html file present. I have looked at the configuration settings that IIS Express use but I can’t see how this hosting works without an initial html file.

Can you help me configure IIS 8.0?

Thanks.

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You have two fundamental choices to run that particular example - because it's a sitelet (note the change of Visual Studio template names since the latest 2.5.128 version - which was just released the other day):

  • As an "HTML Application" (also referred to as an "offline sitelet" in various places in the documentation): this will generate HTML+JS code from a sitelet upon build into bin/html. You can serve this folder from pretty much any web container. To do so, you need to configure your deployment and copy the contents of bin/html into it. Note that these applications are fully HTML+JS, with no server side.
  • As a "Client-Server Application" (also referred to as an "online sitelet"): this will need an application container like IIS, and you can access the "current time" page at /index, unless you changed that binding in the code.

The other main template choice, "Single-Page Application" is not applicable here, as it's not for sitelets. See the Visual Studio templates tab on the Learn page for a bit more information.

Also, there is an updated page in the documentation on How to run examples from the WebSharper site, detailing the four basic scenarios (Single-Page Application, HTML Application, Client-Server Application, and via ASPX markup) and how to adapt the template code accordingly.

Hope this helps.

By on 10/11/2014 1:38 PM ()

Thanks for your suggestion.

I will take your advice and use one of the other templates.

I was just a bit curious why executing IIS Express on the command line successfully processes //localhost:64986/ in the browser. Though clicking the Start button in IIS 8.0 and then entering //localhost:64986/ fails because it is looking for a default document. Instead of somehow passing the request to one of the Websharper DLLs or my Website5.DLL. Which is what I presume IIS Express does. Maybe in IIS 8.0 additional setup steps are required in the Modules or Handler Mapping sections.

C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express>iisexpress /site:WebSite5

Starting IIS Express ...
Successfully registered URL "[link:localhost:64986] for site "Website5" application "/"
Registration completed for site "Website5"
IIS Express is running.
Enter 'Q' to stop IIS Express

Request started: "GET" [link:localhost:64986]
Request ended: [link:localhost:64986] with HTTP status 200.0
Request ended: [link:localhost:64986] with HTTP status 200.0
Request started: "GET" [link:localhost:64986]
Request ended: [link:localhost:64986] with HTTP status 404.0

By on 10/13/2014 11:01 AM ()

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