Installation problems on FastHosts moving machine to win2008

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10/16/2012 5:16:18 PM
mikeduffy.london
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Installation problems on FastHosts moving machine to win2008

Hi Joe,

I have been running a few simple pages with mojoportal on win2003 - asp 3.5sp1 (MSSQL) for about six months.This was working fine and just occasionally would go down when the shared app pool crashed.
I followed the suggestion of the hosting company fasthosts to upgrade the site to a windows2008 server (iis7 with asp3.5sp1) which would have a separate pool for the application. But after the move was getting error 500 until they recommended removing the modules and handlers sections.
They won't allow any modules and handlers to be added to the web.config but the basic few pages still work.

But when I go to edit anything I'm getting "Validation of viewstate MAC failed"  even though I have a correctly defined machine key. I have tried setting different validation settings  for the machine key and for the page. (viewStateEncryptionMode="Never"  obviously ignores encryption for the viewstate)

I've looked at lots of blogs for something else to try and have run out of things to try.
Do you have any other suggestions?

Kind Regards

Mike Duffy

10/17/2012 11:33:47 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: Installation problems on FastHosts moving machine to win2008

My advice would be to move to .NET 4 hosting and use the .NET 4 package of mojoPortal with an Integrated App pool rather than Classic

If the problem continues after your host changes you to .NET 4 and you update the mojoPortal .NET 4 package and your host really doesn't allow any modules or handlers I would find a different hosting provider. If they can't give you .NET 4 hosting I would also move to a different hosting provider but I suspect they can do that.

Note that in changing to .NET 4 I would not combine that with an upgrade. You can find your current mojoPortal version under Administration > System Information then download the .NET 4 mojoPortal package for the same version. You can find older versions on the right side of our codeplex download page. Once everything is working well under  .NET 4 then I would recommend upgrading to the latest version of mojoPortal.

Hope that helps,

Joe

10/18/2012 9:12:09 AM
mikeduffy.london
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Re: Installation problems on FastHosts moving machine to win2008

Hi Joe,

Thanks for your advice. Fasthosts don't support 4.0 on their shared platform. But suggest their VPS service ( which supports 4.0)  for an extra monthly fee. no surprises there then.

Time to move my hosting. Thanks also for the brilliant app.

Kind Regards

Mike Duffy

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