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Monday, June 16, 2014PrintSubscribe
Deployment: Configuring Application in IIS

Press the Start button on your keyboard, and type in “IIS”. Select “Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager”.

Expand the node in the Connections pane to “Sites / Default Web Site / Northwind”. Right-click, and press “Convert to Application…”.

Converting the Northwind folder to an application in IIS.

You must select the correct application pool depending on the ASP.NET version that you selected when creating the app. Click on the “Select…” button next to Application Pool.

Selecting the application pool for the new application.

Click on the Select button and choose the correct version from the dropdown. Be sure to not select the “Classic” version. Then, press OK to save the application pool.

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Press OK to in the Add Application window to finish conversion.

Adding the Northwind application in IIS.

Right-click on the new application, and press Manage Application | Browse.

Browsing the new application from IIS.

The application will open in your default browser.

Browsing the application on the hosting server.

Your application has been deployed. The local address for the application is “http://localhost/northwind”.

Full Trust

Note: Applications created with Code On Time generator that have reporting enabled will add a line in the web.config file of your project that requires full trust on the server. This will ensure high performance when generating reports. If you do not permit full trust to the application, then you will encounter an error stating “That assembly does not allow partially trusted callers”. To disable the requirement for full trust, open the Project Wizard and switch to the Web Server page. Paste the following into the Web.Config modification instructions.

Delete: /configuration/system.web/trust
<nothing/>

Then proceed to regenerate and redeploy the app.

Monday, June 16, 2014PrintSubscribe
Deployment: Opening Firewall Ports

If the application is configured to run on your computer, then you can access the app locally as “http://localhost/northwind”.

Visiting a locally accessible web app.

If your application is deployed to a Windows Server, then the firewall rule for external HTTP traffic has been enabled. This occurs when the Web Server (IIS) role is added to the server configuration. You will be able to access your application on external desktop and mobile devices.

If your application is deployed to a Windows 7/8 machine, you will need to enable the firewall rule using the steps below.

Press the Start button on your keyboard, and type in “firewall”. Select “Windows Firewall with Advanced Security” from the result list.

Starting Windows Firewall with Advanced Security configuration tool.

In the left pane, select “Inbound Rules”. Scroll to the bottom of the list and find “World Wide Web Services (HTTP Traffic-In)”. In the right pane, click “Enable Rule”.

Enabling the HTTP port 80 firewall rule.

You will now be able to access your application from external devices.

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Deployment: Accessing the Web App

You will need to know the local IP address for the deployed application if you want to access the app on the local network. If your server is configured to be publicly accessible on the internet, then you will need to find the public IP address of the server.

Local Network

Connect to the host computer that hosts the web app. Press the Start button and type in “cmd”. Select “cmd.exe” from the result list.

Starting command prompt.

In the command prompt, type in “ipconfig” and press Enter.

Finding the local IP address of the server.

Launch the web browser on your mobile device. Enter the IP address listed under “IPv4 Address”, and add the name of the folder containing the app, as shown in the URL bar of the picture below.

Using a Nexus 7 to navigate to the locally accessible application.

At this point, all users that have access to the local network will be able to use your application by entering this address.

Internet

Use Remote Desktop to log in to your server. Open a browser, type in “my ip”, and press Enter. The public IP address of the server will be displayed.

Finding the public IP of the server.

Switch to your personal device and open the browser. In the URL bar, enter the public IP address and add the name of the folder. Your site will now be accessible from the internet! The site below was accessed via the URL “http://23.97.64.229/northwind”.

Accessing a publicly visible web application on an iPad Air.