Installing Subtext on Windows Server 2008 over UNC Path

Richie — Sat, 31 May 2008 06:28:48 GMT

I promised I'd start making random tech blog entries so here's the first. As part of my migration to Hyper-V (which totally rocks), I had to rebuild my web server. I know this scenario probably doesn't happen much in the consumer space but I have a raid server on the back end where I store all my web content, as such there are all kinds of whacked .NET permission problems you have to deal with. Anyhow, here are the nuances I ran across.

Problem

"Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified."

Solution

This is a weird one. The reason this message comes up is because the ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 assemblies aren't installed. Why they aren't installed by default in Windows Server 2008 is beyond me. Either way, fix is simple... just go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ca9d90fa-e8c9-42e3-aa19-08e2c027f5d6&displaylang=en and install the bits and off you go.

Problem

"Request for the permission of type 'System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission' [...] failed."

Solution

This is one of the reasons I'm actually blogging this. I always forget that I need to give the share full trust else .NET fails. This is easily done via the UI, or if you don't have it installed just run:

   %SystemDrive%:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\caspol.exe -m -ag 1 -url "file:////\\computername\sharename\*" FullTrust -exclusive on

Ok, that's all I got... hope this helps someone somewhere. Man I wish I knew how to properly format posts like this. It looks stupid right now. Will spend some time later and figure out the proper way to do this.

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Installing Subtext on Windows Server 2008 over UNC Path