No-touch deployment [no response]...

[Terry Mulvany]

Greeting All,

OK I keep reading about no-touch deployment so I visited
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...-TouchDeploymentInNETFramework.asp?frame=true
downloaded the sample, and I'll be damned if everything went Ok up until the final step to test by hitting http://localhost/TaskMgmtWS/TaskManagement.exe but what I get is the dreaded 'The page cannot be found'.

That app is in a configured Virtual Directory [default settings] in IIS [on Windows 2K Advanced Server] called TaskMgmtWS and the Release builds of TasksWS.dll and TaskManagement.exe are in the folder. When folder browsing is turned on I can even see the exe but I get the same error when I click it. Also, opening the app directly [double click physical file in Windows] works fine. I know this is something simple and I'm gonna be embarrassed by the fix for it.

Thanks in advance everyone.

 

[Hector Correa]

You probably have URLScan tool installed on the server. URLScan by default
automatically blocks HTTP requests that reference executables.

Here I describe how to get rid of that problem:

http://www.code-magazine.com/article.aspx?quickid=0307061

Hector Correa

Greeting All,

OK I keep reading about no-touch deployment so I visited
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbtchNo-TouchDeplo
ymentInNETFramework.asp?frame=true
downloaded the sample, and I'll be damned if everything went Ok up until the
final step to test by hitting http://localhost/TaskMgmtWS/TaskManagement.exe
but what I get is the dreaded 'The page cannot be found'.

That app is in a configured Virtual Directory [default settings] in IIS [on
Windows 2K Advanced Server] called TaskMgmtWS and the Release builds of
TasksWS.dll and TaskManagement.exe are in the folder. When folder browsing
is turned on I can even see the exe but I get the same error when I click
it. Also, opening the app directly [double click physical file in Windows]
works fine. I know this is something simple and I'm gonna be embarrassed by
the fix for it.

Thanks in advance everyone.

 

[Chris Botha]

It is the settings of IIS, you've installed the IIS lockdown tool, or the URLscan utility. In any case, the problem can be corrected in the
%windir%\system32\inetserv\urlscan\urlscan.ini file, it is set up so that it does not allow EXEs to be downloaded.
I removed it from my computer, but if I remember correctly, it should be in the AllowExtensions section, or not be in the DenyExtensions section of the file. Do a bit of research and you should be able to allow EXEs to be downloaded.


Greeting All,

OK I keep reading about no-touch deployment so I visited
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...-TouchDeploymentInNETFramework.asp?frame=true
downloaded the sample, and I'll be damned if everything went Ok up until the final step to test by hitting http://localhost/TaskMgmtWS/TaskManagement.exe but what I get is the dreaded 'The page cannot be found'.

That app is in a configured Virtual Directory [default settings] in IIS [on Windows 2K Advanced Server] called TaskMgmtWS and the Release builds of TasksWS.dll and TaskManagement.exe are in the folder. When folder browsing is turned on I can even see the exe but I get the same error when I click it. Also, opening the app directly [double click physical file in Windows] works fine. I know this is something simple and I'm gonna be embarrassed by the fix for it.

Thanks in advance everyone.

 

[Terry Mulvany]

Well I'm not *that* embarrassed but I should have known... thank you so much
both Hector and Chris!