Hi Everyone I am completely new to Umbraco and want to investigate, if Umbraco could fit our eSport website. I have looked in many directions to find a guide on how to install on IIS (dedicated server), but cannot seem to find anything. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I can find lot's of guides on how to setup a development environment with Visual Studio and local hosted Umbraco. Any help are must welcome. Thanks in advance.

Thats perfect, thanks a lot. Will try this method tomorrow.

You build the site locally and then publish it to your website depending on which umbraco version you are using that part will be slightly different

okay.. that sounds a bit troublesome just to get a dummy site up and running. Was hoping for something like the Wordpress method, where you could download the files and get startet from there. Thanks for clearing

there is an option to 'publish to filesystem' in visual studio, which creates a folder with a standalone app that you can upload to your server and run

Hello, I have this issue too, using the published site it throws an error 403.14, my solution doesn't have aspx files, I have tried everything I could get from the documentation but I'm sure I still miss something

Publish the site to a folder, afaik it defaults to bin/Release/net6.0/publish Upload all the files and folders from bin/Release/net6.0/publish (make sure you go as far as publish) to your www folder on IIS Make sure you get the wwwroot/media files, sometimes they don't get published Upload SQL server database (backup/restore, check user etc) Create website in IIS. Make sure you have the relevant Hosting Bundle installed as per https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-cms/fundamentals/setup/server-setup/iis Application pool - settings - set as No Managed Code Set permissions as per https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-cms/fundamentals/setup/server-setup/permissions Make sure appsettings connection string is correct

and if it's in .net 7.0 the principle is the same?(forgot to mention I created an Umbraco 11.4.0 project)

I've never done an Umbraco 11 site but assume so. Just make sure the correct Hosting Bundle is set up on the server.

Publishing and IIS hosting is exactly the same for 9/10/11/12. Umbraco 11 can use net7, Umbraco 12 needs net7.

I see, so far I am stuck on an umbraco boot failure, I can't seem to find why it's doing this since the connection string is set right, on the log it mentions :" Configured database is reporting as not being available" but when I run it from the VS or the powershell terminal with dotnet run it works normally

Did you check the Umbraco log?

Yes, that is the umbraco log message

I don't recognize that error message. Which database provider is it? Are all the configuration files correct in the IIS directory?

I am not sure about the configuration files as there was no web.config from the start ( had to create one manually ) the database was created on the first run as SQL Server type

Isn't this Umbraco 11? Then Web.config is only used by IIS for minimal stuff like how to start ASP.NET Core. Umbraco would use appSettings[.environment].json.

Indeed, but I needed web.config to deploy the app on IIS

And what is the connection string? Can you find a correct connection string in a configuration file that Umbraco loads?

it is of sort :" Server=server;database=database;Integrated Security=true "

A minimal Web.config for "ASP.NET Core on IIS" is usually created automatically, either by VS or by msdeploy or by vsdeploy...

I tried the variants with Data Source, Initial catalog , User Id , Password, it is till not reachable

Is this IIS on your development machine? Can you verify that the connection string is correct?

Yes, it is

If you are using "Integrated Security=true" then your App_Pool/YOURAPPOOLNAME user needs the correct permission on your database, have you checked those?

I am not entirely sure how to find them, sorry

Is this in a hosted environment or are you setting up your own server? Were you provided with credentials to access the SQL server?

The test case is on the personal space with access to both SQL Server and the solution, I also have access to the target server where I need to deploy and host the application along with the SQL Server that is in the remote server (which is a windows environment if it matters), it seems I do not have an App_Pool or IIS APPOOL for users yet, I have the credentials for them, the only problem is due to permissions I cannot directly deploy from VS to server but I opted for deploy to folder->move the folder scenario

If you created a website in IIS for your Umbraco site then it will have an

IIS APPPOOL\YourAppPoolName

user associated with it, you need to add this user to your database as the owner, then your Umbraco site will be able to connect to it

Oh, I tried to search it, probably that was the main issue, I will test right now and return with an answer

yes, you can't search for them, they are invisible users 🙂

Well, a progress is a progress and I'll take it, thank you for clarifying , now onto the next error which is a 500.30 haha, but this solved the boot fail issue (probably)

Glad you got it sorted.

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Hello, I am using plesk as hosting server. The problem is that the server does not have cli option. Please any other way of installing Umbraco in this situation or what is the flow for the installation?

Are you using a Windows or Linux Plesk server?