AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

I have a brand new (2 weeks old) Vista Home Premuim 64 bits machine which has IIS7.0 and SQL Server Express 2005 on it, I am trying to run this on.

Just downloaded yesterday literally for the first time.

First Problem
I am getting this error message on the top of the http://localhost:91/install/Configure1.aspx

The domain localhost:91 has already registered for a demo key, but the evaluation period has expired. Contact AbleCommerce if you need an extended demo key.
Provide your license key and database connection to complete the first step of installation.

I have NEVER installed this software on ANY machine until now....

So, to *validate* I am doing the install correctly. I went to my windows 2000 server and installed it on there and got it to work. So I am doing the installation properly.

But I need this to work on my development environment as the software will be customized.

What I have done:
Set Network Service for Read/write permissions on the Base folder.
IIS set the Application pool named pipiline mode to classic
Set it to run 32 bit applications
Tried using just the Default website instead of a port
Specified the connection string by hand
Specified the connection string by input entries
Specified it to use the built in database.

What I have is Vista Home Premuim, SQL Server Express 2005, IIS 7.0 and I will be developing in VS 2008 with a .NET 2.0 evironment set up.

I researched the forums but haven't found anyone that has run into this error.

The version is Able Commerce 7.1, which from my understanding is suppose to work with IIS 7.0.

Second Problem
IF I try to compile and run this through my VS 2008 as a *2.0* application, by opening a web site *through file system* I also get the following errors.

Error 1 The type or namespace name 'DHLInternational' does not exist in the namespace 'CommerceBuilder.Shipping.Providers' (are you missing an assembly reference?) C:\Users\sacred\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\WebSites\ablecommerce\Admin\Shipping\Providers\DHLInternational\Register.aspx.cs 1
Error 2 The type or namespace name 'DHLInternational' does not exist in the namespace 'CommerceBuilder.Shipping.Providers' (are you missing an assembly reference?) C:\Users\sacred\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\WebSites\ablecommerce\Admin\Shipping\Providers\DHLInternational\Default.aspx 2
Error 3 The type or namespace name 'DHLInternational' does not exist in the namespace 'CommerceBuilder.Shipping.Providers' (are you missing an assembly reference?) C:\Users\sacred\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\WebSites\ablecommerce\Admin\Shipping\Providers\DHLInternational\Configure.aspx.cs 1
Error 4 The type or namespace name 'DHLInternational' does not exist in the namespace 'CommerceBuilder.Shipping.Providers' (are you missing an assembly reference?) C:\Users\sacred\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\WebSites\ablecommerce\Admin\Shipping\Providers\DHLInternational\Activate.aspx 4
Error 5 The type or namespace name 'DHLInternational' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) C:\Users\sacred\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\WebSites\ablecommerce\Admin\Shipping\Providers\DHLInternational\Configure.aspx.cs 159

IF I look at the name space it does not have a DHLInternational it has a DHLInternationalBeta versio.

IF I go in and change all the references from DHLInternation to DHLInternationalBeta in the code areas I get the following error

Error 1 Could not load file or assembly 'CommerceBuilder.DHLInternationalBeta' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. C:\Users\sacred\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\WebSites\ablecommerce\Admin\Shipping\Providers\DHLInternational\Activate.aspx 4

On this line

<%@ Register Assembly="CommerceBuilder.DHLInternationalBeta" Namespace="CommerceBuilder.Shipping.Providers.DHLInternationalBeta"
TagPrefix="DHLGW" %>

if I change it back to the original it gives me the original error.

This code should be compilable right? for the demo as I see source code for codebehind files (.cs or c# in the aspx files).


Your help is greatly appreciated,

Angela Law

Local user ASPNET will need full permissions to the web site folder and subfolders as well.

I've read that Network Service is only used in a server environment. ASPNET is used for the WinXP flavor of IIS. However I always add both regardless of the environment just to cover the bases.

In the case of your compiler error, I'm thinking it's a permissions error. In WinXP (and Vista I believe), files that are copied/moved into a sub-folder do not necessarily inherit perms from the parent folder. So you have to right-click the website folder, select Security, go to Advanced and apply the checkbox "Reset permissions on all child-objects..." etc.

And yes, the site opened as a website in VS should fully recompile/rebuild without error. I've seen VS 2008 do some weird things though. Usually it's because I've copied a file and perms aren't correct (again).

That's about all the help I can give - haven't worked with 64-bit Vista and got no plans to do so anytime soon

There are several forum posts about installing on Vista and here is one with the problems I ran into--at one point, the error message I was getting wasn't relevant to the error. Here is one thread.
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=8995

Here's a recent post about a DHL error:
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=9386&hilit=DHLInternationalBeta

Hi Joe,

thanks so much for your reply.

I did set the IUSR to have read/write permissions as well as the Network Service. I do the samething. Guess I should have stated that. I was giving the stuff I did extra on top of normal stuff. Sorry for not mentioning it.

When I copied over the files, everytime I do I always go in and set the Network Service and the IUSR for read/write permissions.

When I click apply it always popups a window running through the files showing that it is changing everything underneath the folder.

thanks for the help anyway I will do some more checking into the permissions as far as the compiling goes.

I been programming in VS 2008 for about a year now and haven't had the pleasure off having those issues you mention.

Hey BTW, 64 bit is *awesome* 32 bit is limited to only being able to use 3-4 gigs of ram.

My machine is a honking quad core 6GB RAM and 64 bit OS. It flies! Only Minus is it being Vista.

I really can tell the difference and VS 2008 is installed in its 64 bit version.

I am not a tech junkie but this new machine I got is pretty good and if you are going to run Vista I would recommend as much RAM as possible

angelalaw wrote:I did set the IUSR to have read/write permissions as well as the Network Service. I do the samething. Guess I should have stated that. I was giving the stuff I did extra on top of normal stuff. Sorry for not mentioning it.

Not a problem, there's a lot of detail involved with this stuff and it's easy to miss something(s).

You sure it was IUSR and not ASPNET?

IUSR is only used for ASP classic sites. ASP.Net sites use the ASPNET user account to authenticate the local machine. Giving IUSR rights won't do anything for an ASP.Net site.

Don't assume anything with Vista. If it says "applying to subfolders", check it just to be sure.

Judy did a good job posting some threads that cover what you need. Go through those and see how it goes.

...and nice try, but anyone who gets excited about 6Gb of RAM is a tech junkie

Thanks Judy!

I did read the Vista post already...

The other post helped me get past the compile problem. It literally is there code is bad. So I took the DHL out since I also don't use them.

So guess what I could compile and run Via Vista.

Now the question is why did the setup installation work in the VS 2008 developer iis environment and not the normal IIS environment.

So now I am going to go through and publish this site to the local IIS and see what it does...

I will report back...

Thanks again,

Angela

Hey Joe,

I could not find any ASPNET user on my Vista machine (I goto add a user to security, I click Advanced, ask it to find all the users, and the list appears). All it had was the IUSR and network service so that is what I used.

As far as I know IIS 6.0/7.0 still uses the IUSR to allow read write permissions to folders. And it in different circumstances also requires the network service user.

Now I am going to have to research the IUSR/ASPNET thing as you have me curious

Thanks again for the help

Angela

I did run across the ASPNET missing thing when I was helping someone set up on Vista. He added IUSER read permissions, but I had found some stuff when searching and then I forgot about it when he got it set up. I googled for Vista ASPNET user and found some results about someone accidentally deleting and how to install it again. I didn't look long enough to figure out why there was a problem to start with.
The easy way is to reinstall ASP.NET. The EXE is called aspnet_regiis and it's location varies based on the version of .NET you have installed: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/librar ... S.80).aspx

On my machine, I didn't have to add missing things like ASP when I set up IIS, but I think I installed VS2008 after I did the IIS set up. Maybe VS does something-- on two other machines where they had installed VWD2008 first, we had trouble with IIS.

Hey thanks Judy for that info. I will look at this.

I installed VS 2008 professional first and then IIS when I realized I needed it for some expermintation I was doing.

So maybe because it came after.

But I also have a day job and at my work we do not have ASPNET user on some of the machines either (server 2003 machines).

We have always used IUSR for read/write permissions without a problem most of the time and then when we do have a problem we have put the network service on it.

I am curious now and I will have to look at what you gave me

Thanks again!

Angela

So, I got the demo version to work *in* the developer IDE environment using its own blend of the IIS.

It would not work on the IIS straight up.

I did publish the site to my IIS and it does run know that it has the lic file.

So, I am assuming that there is some issue with the http get from the web service that it is the problem. The one that does the retrieval of the license file.

Have a great week! And thanks to Joe and Judy for helping me

Angela

angelalaw wrote:I did publish the site to my IIS and it does run know that it has the lic file.

Keep in mind the license file you received was keyed to the domain name you specified with your order. That means the AC7 install with that license key will only work for that domain. Trying to use a live license key in a local development platform will not work.

I have two separate license keys. One for my local development install and one for my live install.