Ross Patterson [11/Aug/08 10:06 AM] Carnage reported to ccnet-user on 2008-07-28: I want to install cc.net server on Vista32 PC running IIS7 but I find that no matter how hard I try by enabling IIS on PC first then installing cc.net afterwards it will not create the web dashboard website properly and I cannot get any dashboard output on Vista PC. I try same steps on XP PC and everything installs perfect first time. Does anyone have any advice for getting cc.net working on Vista 32 PC? I need it because my projects need to run on this PC. Alternately is there a way to install cc.net on the Vista32 PC but point the dashboard output to another PC (XP running IIS6 and cc.net with dashboard working properly)? Any help appreciated, -AB

Ross Patterson [11/Aug/08 10:07 AM] Ping responded to ccnet-user on 2008-08-01: I jsut set up ccnet on a vista-based Server 2008 setup and had similar problems. For me, it was a complicated mess of making a virtual directory in IIS7 and making it treat that virtual directory as an application. You'd also want to make sure ASP.NET support is installed in IIS. I also had to disable the Integration mode or something like that. Forgive the vagueness, I know very little about IIS. As for the workaround of having the dashboard on the XP PC it seems to me you could just have the XP computer point to the dashboard folder over the network, or set a script to copy the dashboard files over the LAN.

Ross Patterson [11/Aug/08 10:08 AM] RossPatterson responded to ccnet-user on 2008-08-11: It sounds like the procedure to create the CCNET virtual directory needs to be changed for Vista and IIS7. There's a VBScript file that gets run during installation to do it. I don't think the installer leaves it behind for you to examine, but the current version is at http://ccnet.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ccnet/trunk/install/createCCNetVDir.vbs?revision=3722. The most likely problem is the SetASPNETVersion() function, which needs to run the aspnet_regiis.exe tool. We already know there is a problem with doing that on 64-bit XP (see CCNET-1199). When you ran the installer, you should have received an error message saying what didn't work. If you can share it with us, that will help diagnose the failure.