ASP.NET on Brinkster

[drew10]

I am developing a site for a friend, and she wants to keep the cost to minimum, so I was going to host it using Brinkster.com's free general service. I was just playing around last night, and I tried to upload a simple asp.net project to the server. I kept getting errors with the web.config file. Has anyone successfully used Brinkster to host a .net site? If so, what files from a visual studio project must be uploaded, and are there any special steps I must take to make the project run on Brinkster?
Thanks for any help!
-Drew

 

[GabeC]

At one time Brinkster.com did not allow the use of web.config files for their free plan. Does anyone know if they have changed this and now allow it? I could not find any mention of this anywhere on their web site.

Thanks,

Gabe

 

[TomTT]

You should go to Brinkster and check out the General ASP.Net forum. There have been tons of posts about trying to get .net up and running on the general accounts. Biggest thing is that you don't have a /bin folder as a general account holder. There is a very "iffy" procedure for loading our VS.net code-behind. Most people seem to have a lot of problems with it.

If you are doing simple pages, you can just put the form on one page the code on another (to keep it clean), but use an old "include" line to append the code to the form. This avoids all the hassles with code-behind and Brinkster.

The FAQs on the General forum page cover a lot of this.

Good Luck.