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Managing ASP.NET Web Applications

ASP.NET web applications are sample applications for Microsoft's .NET platform, that provide code for accomplishing the most common web development tasks. Plesk supports the following ASP.NET Web Applications:

  • DotNetNuke - the content management system meant for creating and deploying such projects as commercial web sites, corporate intranets and extranets, and online publishing portals.

  • Community Server - the basic platform designed to enable communities with the applications for Microsoft's .NET platform: forums, blogs, and galleries.

  • Microsoft ASP.NET Starter Kits:

    1. Portal Starter Kit - demonstrates how to use ASP.NET and the .NET framework for building dynamic portal application.

    2. Reports Starter Kit - demonstrates a sample data reporting solution for displaying multiple views on data, creating charts, and rendering any type of data in a Web application.

    3. Time Tracker Starter Kit - demonstrates how to build a line-of-business ASP.NET application to track time worked on projects.

    4. Commerce Starter Kit - demonstrates an e-commerce storefront application complete with shopping cart, product catalog, and a web service to submit orders.

    5. Community Starter Kit - enables an individual or an ISP to quickly create a community Web site such as a user group site, a developer resource site, or a news site.

In order for an ASP.NET Starter Kit to be deployed on a domain, the following conditions must be fulfilled:

  • ASP.NET installed on the server

  • The domain having physical hosting with enabled ASP.NET support

  • Presence of the application package in the server's application vault

For ASP.NET Web Applications management to be available for you as a client, the Physical hosting management permission should be enabled by the server administrator.

To manage ASP.NET web applications for a domain, click the ASP.NET Web Applications icon located in the Hosting field set on the domain administration page. The applications management page will open displaying the list of applications installed on the domain:

The following information is provided for each application installed on the domain:

  • Generic Type - the common type of an application: Starter Kit (Microsoft ASP.NET Starter Kits) or Web Site Starter

  • Name - the name of the application

  • Version - the application package version

  • Directory - the name of the directory containing the application files and components

  • Description - short description of the application package

  • The or icon - indicates whether the application configuration via the control panel is available or not. If it is, you can go to the application reconfiguration page by clicking the icon.

  • The or icon - indicates whether the application browsing via the web is available or not. If it is, you can view the application via the web with your browser by clicking the icon.

  • The or icon - indicates whether the application help files are available or not. If they are, you can view the application help by clicking the icon

On this page you can perform the following operations:

  • install application on the domain,

  • view the installed applications via web,

  • remove applications from the domain

To remove an application(s) installed on the domain, select the corresponding check box(es) and click Remove. On the next page, confirm removal and click OK. This will also remove the application database and the directory contained the application files and components.

Installing Applications

To install an ASP.NET web application on a domain, do the following:

  1. On the web applications management page, click the Install New Web Application button. The page will open displaying the list of web application packages available for deploying on the domain.

  2. Select the radio button corresponding to the necessary application package and click Install.

  3. On the next page, enter the name of the directory where the application files and components will be installed. The installation will create physical and virtual directories named as you specified, and the virtual directory will be accessible via the control panel File Manager and Web Directories features. After you entered the directory name into the Domain Subdirectory input field, click OK.

  4. The following page displays the details on the package installation: the name of the domain where the Starter Kit is going to be installed, and the automatically generated name of the database that is going to be used by the application. If you wish, you can change the database name to any other.

    If you install Community Starter Kit or Community Server, you must also specify the community administrator credentials that will be used for admin's logging in via the web.

    Click Install to complete the installation.


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