Hello,
We are currently running DNN v4.6.2 on a Windows Server 2003 SP1 box. We would like to migrate it to Windows Server 2008 SP2. I have been working on that and following the extremely helpful and informative guides that I've found on the forums. Thank you to all those who have contributed their experience.
Everything went pretty smoothly, with the exception of one thing and I wanted to get feedback to find out how big of an issue this is. I don't seem to be able to get the portal to load correctly. If use the Default App Pool, I get a server error page that says "Request is not available in this context." The description says: "An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace..." and the exception detail is: "System.Web.HttpException: Request is not available in this context." If, however, I run DNN in the Classic .NET App Pool, the portal loads and runs just fine.
As part of my research into issues with moving ASP.NET v2.0 websites over to IIS 7, I read the blog of one of the project managers for the IIS 7 team where he described some changes, using a tool called appcmd, that had to be made to the web.confg file so that the web app can run in the default app pool. He said that only as a last resort should we run apps in the Classic .NET App Pool.
Is there something else that I need to do to be able to run our version 4.6.2 of DNN in the default IIS 7 app pool or do I need to continue running it in the classic .net app pool? If so, do later versions, like 5.x, support running in the default app pool?
Thanks for any help that you can give,
John