I've built a small app based on the Personal web site template and it works
fine on my development machine (within VS2005). When I Publish it to a
Windows Server 2003 machine it *almost* works fine. There are two problems,
one minor and one major:
1.) After publishing to the server I have to go to the server and manually
set the ASP.Net version up to 2.x since it defaults to 1.1.x. [Minor, but a
nuisance].
2.) The SQL2005 database that ends up on the server is Read Only. The web
app can apparently read it, but if it tries to write to it the app crashes
with an error page complaining that the database is Read Only. [Major
Problem!]
3.) None of the accounts created (in the database) on the development
machine work on the Server version. The logins fail, but it is impossible to
create a login using any of the names of accounts created on the development
machine. That tells me that the accounts are there, but don't work. I
*think* this is because (maybe) there's a different application guid on the
server, but don't know. If that's the problem then how do I deploy such an
application without losing all of the data?
Thanks in advance,
Bill
PS - I've tried both Publishing from the VS IDE and running an msi created
in a VS Setup project. Either way I get these problems.
