Site Publishing Stopped Working!

I was able to publish my first ASPNET2 site to my hosting server earlier tod
ay without any problems. I gave it the name of
subdirectory that would hold the site, entered my ftp password (even though I told it t
o upload it to http://www.mysite...), hit
okay and away it went.
Now all of a sudden it isn't working. When I try to upload, I do everything
exactly the same and yet the password gets rejected.
I've tried deleting the entire subdirectory from the hosting site using an f
tp client. The upload still doesn't work.
Can anyone suggest a solution? I'm getting desperate.
Oh: and can someone please tell Microsoft that it would be EXTREMELY helpful
if, when something doesn't work, SOME INFORMATION ABOUT
THE FAILURE WAS PROVIDED.
- MarkI should also mention that I can upload the project to the root of the site.
So publishing to:
http://www.arcabama.com
works, but publishing to
http://www.arcabama.com/boardng
doesn't work now, but did before, even though I've deleted the entire boardn
g subdirectory. Is there some kind of virtual directory
still floating around in the site or something that's conflicting with the l
atest attempt to publish?
- Mark
what about contacting your website provider?
they are the most likely candidate for creating/finding/fixing this kind of
problem...
(Microsoft is way behind in this case!)
Regards,
Lloyd Dupont
NovaMind development team
NovaMind Software
Mind Mapping Software
<www.nova-mind.com>
"Mark Olbert" <ChairmanMAO@.newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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>I was able to publish my first ASPNET2 site to my hosting server earlier
>today without any problems. I gave it the name of
> subdirectory that would hold the site, entered my ftp password (even
> though I told it to upload it to http://www.mysite...), hit
> okay and away it went.
> Now all of a sudden it isn't working. When I try to upload, I do
> everything exactly the same and yet the password gets rejected.
> I've tried deleting the entire subdirectory from the hosting site using an
> ftp client. The upload still doesn't work.
> Can anyone suggest a solution? I'm getting desperate.
> Oh: and can someone please tell Microsoft that it would be EXTREMELY
> helpful if, when something doesn't work, SOME INFORMATION ABOUT
> THE FAILURE WAS PROVIDED.
> - Mark
Actually, it turned out to be a problem with IIS. At least, I consider it to
be a problem.
Basically, if you upload a website to your server, the subdirectory that hol
ds the site gets marked as an IIS application. That's
fine.
But if the subdirectory is deleted through a file system tool for some reaso
n (like I did in the course of trying to resolve an
issue I ran into), IIS isn't made aware of the deletion. So it thinks that s
ubdirectory is still out there.
Then, when you try to re-publish the website, you're blocked because IIS won
't allow it. But when you look at the site directory
using a file system tool (e.g., ftp), you won't find the subdirectory. And,
since the VS2005 publishing process is too stupid to
tell you >>why<< the publish failed you'll be left scratching your head. Or
pulling your hair.
IMHO, there needs to be better/tighter linkage between IIS and the file syst
em. Why there isn't when both are MS products (the
server runs MS server software) is bizarre.
- Mark