Issue Running RIA Services on IIS 5

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Issue Running RIA Services on IIS 5

I'm setting up an environment for testing a Silverlight app with RIA Services in IIS 5.1. I'm getting an error message on the first service call saying "The specified resource was not found."

This only occurs when I deploy the project to my local IIS 5 setup, it works fine in the Visual Studio hosted web server. I was having this issue with IIS 6 too but fixed the issue when I selected the virtual directory and selected "Convert to Application." Problem is, IIS 5 doesn't have this function (that I can find, anyway.)

Anyone have experience deploying RIA Services on IIS 5? Scouring the web I've only found related issues with Azure and other fixes that didn't help.

+1 A:

You may find life less painful running Windows Server 2008 in a virtual machine. (I don’t think the developers of RIA will be running on XP these days!)

If you have other reasons, upgrading your machine to windows 7 will give you a version of IIS more like what you get on a server, however using a virtual machine is lower risk.

Sorry for the bad news, but XP is rather old…. (However I still have 2 machines running it)

Ian Ringrose 2009-09-21 16:36:14

XP may be old but it's the client's standard so I have no choice but to use it (at least it's not our other client, they're on Win 2k!) I did set up a VirtualBox with XP for my testing though, just trying to figure out what tweaks are necessary to the config to get it running.

Nick Gotch 2009-09-21 16:47:01

but the backend should run on a server and XP is not a server OS

Ian Ringrose 2009-09-21 20:38:13

Actually that solves my problem: their server is 2003 with IIS 6 so I don't need to get this running on 5. Thanks! (Just assumed since XP was the standard that was the OS running on their server, ha.)

Nick Gotch 2009-09-21 20:47:23

i have the same issue as the original post. i cant get database access from my ria services application. does anyone have any ideas?

Cory 2009-11-30 17:01:22

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