Trying to ftp my project with FileZilla

[Marie-Andree]

Hello,

I am trying to ftp my project with FileZilla.

In Visual Studio, in the Solution Explorer: I right clicked and selected Publish.

In Profile I selected New and named it.

In publish method, I selected Ftp, but it is only a guess, I don't know which one I am suppose to take. I then entered all my credentials, tested the connection it it came back "connected".

In configuration, I selected release, but again, I don't know what is behind that selection...

Then I hit Publish and if I go to my website, this is what I see:



I tried different combinations with the wizard, but none of them seems to be working. Am I even at the right place??

Also, I googled a bit around and is the main page of a project (home page) is supposed to be named index.aspx or Default.aspx, it seems I can not find an answer on that as well.

Thank you kindly for helping me in advance!

[sapator]

Hello.
Never use Visual Studio publish, it get's on all kind of errors through versions (unless you use vs2015 that I haven't checked).
Just copy your project by hand to the server.

[Marie-Andree]

Hello,

Thank you for getting back to me!

When you mention "copy your project by hand to the server", are you meaning in FileZilla to drag each files and folders from to the computer side to the server side?

Do I need to drag all the files? Are there any setting that need to be made?

Thank you!

[techgnome]

First things first...
Since I don't want to take anythign for granted, I have a couple of questions:
1) does your host support ASP.NET? Or more to the point does your package support ASP.NET? - example, my host does support ASP.NET, but the package I'm subscribed under is a Linux, so no ASP.NET for me. If your host doesn't support it, or your package doesn't allow for it, then there's no point in going any further ... you would need to correct which ever part of that doesn't.

2) If they do, and you do... Is default.aspx supported as a default document? This is something that is configurable, so it's possible that it may only recognize "index" and not "default"... either way, somethign to look into.

-tg

[szlamany]

Did you put /default.aspx in the URL when you browsed to the site?

also answer TG's questions!

[Marie-Andree]

Hello,
Thank you so much for the inputs. I just contacted my hosting provider and they told me that hey do not support ASP.NET as there hosting is all done on Linux based servers. This is a start to eventually get there!
And yes, my default (home page) is default.aspx for the .net web site, but this is at the end of an other html website.
Ex: http://www.domain.com/default.aspx
I guess I just need to find an other host provider for now and take it from there.

[techgnome]

Yeah, if they only offer linux, odds are they do not support ASP.NET... so in order to run one, you'll need a host that does support it.

-tg

[szlamany]

I use GoDaddy - they offer MS SQL and ASP.Net (IIS).

I went for a virtual server - so I can RDP into it and work it more naturally then through some web portal.

[Marie-Andree]

Alright,

I requested for a transfer from my "Linux based servers host" to "GoDaddy".

Now to upload the project, are there any particular files or settings that need to be made?

Thank you so much!

[szlamany]

You might have to install IIS yourself on the GoDaddy server - I cannot recall. Maybe it's a FEATURE you ENABLE in the SERVER setup.

Once you do that you will get a folder that you can add things to - but first you make sure you can browse to it. You should get the default IIS page with an image with "welcome" in lots of languages.

Get to that point and you can start discussing what to do to get your own page working in that folder.