1. Installing sylib By, Tolga Ciftci

2. Main Aims Installing the website with the setup file –With SQL Express Server and user instancing.

3. Setup files –2 setup files for 2 setup types. –Precompiled setup The sources are precompiled. No source files for web pages. In folder “sylibPrecompSetup” Advantages –Making It Harder for Prying Eyes Disadvantages –Harder to update the site –Preparing an updateable precompiled web site is possible. But this is not updateable.

4. Setup files Setup –Not precompiled –In folder “sylibSetup” –Advantages Easier to prepare Can change files in place with notepad. –Disadvantages Less secure

5. Setup files They are installed the same way

6. About User Instances and SQLExpress Gives “database admin rights” to non- admin processes/users for database files that they can access. –Asp.Net web application is not admin; default user name “Network Service” in sy machines. An instance of SQL Express server with client’s rights and name created. –See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en- us/library/bb264564.aspx for a discussionhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en- us/library/bb264564.aspx

7. About User Instances and SQLExpress The web site expects an SQL Express server instance with “user instance” option enabled and with instance name SQLExpress. –Default installation of SQL Express has this instance name. – Can check by trying to connect with “SQL Server Management Studio”. Express edition of management studio will also work.

8. Connecting to SQL Express Open Management studio –Enter “.\SQLExpress” in server name. “.\” server addres. Means localhost SQLExpress: Server instance name –Authentication is “Windows Authentication” Press connect

9. Management Studio Object Explorer SQL query editor connected to (local)\SQLExpress Execute button Results window

10. Checking “User Instances” option In Management Studio object explorer window, right click on the server name and choose new query. In the SQL editor window write “sp_configure 'user instances enabled‘” Press execute button

11. Checking “User Instances” option If the results window shows a row like the one on the left, “user instances” is enabled. In the other case execute –sp_configure 'user instances enabled','1‘; RECONFIGURE; GO Change “1” with “0” to disable

12. Checking “User Instances” option For Summer 2007 SQLServer express seems to be installed correctly on sy machines. You don’t need to check this for summer 2007

13. Installing the site Double click on the setup exe program SylibSetup dialog appears. Click “Next >” button

14. Installing the site On the next windows Choose site In the virtual directory write a meaningful name that wont clash with other people using the same machine –For example sylibsy01a –I used sylibteam2007 in this example. Click “Next >” button

15. Installing the site Wait for completion of setup Click on the “Close” button.

16. Checking installation directory Go to “c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\ –In our example this will be “c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\sylibteam2007” Now we can check whether site works or not –Browse to “http://localhost/ ”

17. Possible errors In some sy machines the.Net 2.0 is not registered in the ISS. –This gives an error that says “Parser error message: Unrecognized attribute xmlns” in web browser. –See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/aa336670.aspx for an explanation and solutionhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/aa336670.aspx –Basically execute aspnet_regiis executable from: %windows root directory%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\%version of the.NET Framework%\aspnet_regiis -r In sy machines this is “C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\ aspnet_regiis -r” –The “-r” option associates all web applications with ASP.Net 2.0. if this is not OK for your setup use “-ir” option. You can look at http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2006/01/26/436607.aspx http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2006/01/26/436607.aspx

18. Changing permission of database files Since SQL Server express uses user instancing while attaching the files, the process attaching the database files need to have read-write access to the files. –The process attaching DB files is the ISS application pool which uses identity “Network Service” –Giving “Network Service” read-write access to these files solves the “read-only database” file problem.

19. Changing Permissions of DB files The database files are under “App_Data” subfolder of the application folder. –The file extensions are; “.mdf” and “.ldf”. Select all of these files. –Right click and choose properties –In the upcoming properties dialog go to security tab

20. Changing Permissions of DB files(Continued) 1.Press Add button under “Groups or User names” list 2.“Select users or groups” dialog box comes up. a.In the name field, write “network service” b.For the location field, choose the computer you are connected to. c.Click OK. 1 2 a b 2 b a 2 b a 2 b

21. Changing Permissions of DB files Give read,write and execute rights to “Network Service” –Execute right may not be needed. Only “Administrators” and “Network Service” in the users list seems enough.

22. Extra Information In vista the installation program may not work right out of the box. This maybe due to the fact that VBScript is not registered. –See http://blogs.msdn.com/fzandona/archive/2007/ 03/30/wm-6-sdk-install-issue-common7-ide- projecttemplates.aspx for a similar issue and possible solution. We do not recommend or reject this solution. http://blogs.msdn.com/fzandona/archive/2007/ 03/30/wm-6-sdk-install-issue-common7-ide- projecttemplates.aspx

23. Extra Information At times you may want to move/copy/delete the database file and not able to do it due to the fact they are used by another process (probably SQL Server Express) –Waiting for some amount of time or restarting the machine may work. –Process explorer from Microsoft maybe helpful: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/ ProcessExplorer.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/ ProcessExplorer.mspx Note that closing file handles using this tool may cause some data corruption or damage the DB files.

24. References The references shown in this presentation are obtained by googling and are not necessarily from sources we know.