Real big deployment problem

[RedLion]

Hello,

I’ve got a very strange but big deployment problem.

I’ve written an asp.net application with an usercontrol on a webform. The usercontrol reads all picture names out of a mssql database, then it writes a html table with all pictures as “<img”. So all pictures are displayed near each other.

Within the development environment it works (Windows server 2003 with VS.NET2003 installed). On the production server e.g.

http://www.myserver.com

the pictures are not displayed within the page. No error occurs, but the control is just not executed. When I copy all files from the root to a map within the root named Test (so that’s

http://www.myserver.com/test)

or Second (

http://www.myserver.com/Second)

everything goes well (off course I right click the directories and say create application, all other pages with other controls that are part of the webapplication are working fine). The production server is windows 2000 sp4 IIS 5. No errors occur, and I can’t debug it, because I can’t reproduce the problem anywhere else except on the production server where the site needs to run……..

So:

- I am constantly using the same files
-

http://www.myserver.com

= not working
-

http://www.myserver.com/Test

= working
-

http://www.myserver.com/Secound

= working


Looked everywhere on the Internet but can’t find any solutions???

Any help please???

Charl

 

[Henryas]

I think there maybe some referencing problem there. How did you deploy your application? If the production server supports FrontPage extension, try deploying using FrontPage extension and see if it works.

 

[Veep]

I remember this happening to me with a custom control header. I created the custom control in a different project and just copied the .dll over to the Bin directory of my Web App project (test box). It worked fine. When I deployed (xcopy) it wasn't there. I didn't get an error but it just didn't render. I added a reference to the .dll, did a rebuild and deployed again. Everybody lived happily ever after. I hope that your solution is that easy. Good luck.