Under 5.0.x I had no issues setting up the web farm.  I set the webfarm key to true in the web.config, made sure the providers were set up correctly and enabled the needed tasks in the scheduler.  End result was all worked as planned.  When I upgraded to 5.1.0 these same settings don't work.  When I go to view the host setting the 'Is Web Farm?' check box is not checked (this is also always disabled so can't be checked from the form).  What is new in 5.1.0? 

I have gone into the scheduler and have seen that under the 'Run on Servers'  for a task there is now a check box with my server listed instead of the text box that used to be there.  I have tried checking and unchecking the server with the same result being web farm is never enabled.

This is my config ....

I'm using web farm support to run a web garden on my Windows 2003 server running .net Framework 3.5 sp1

I have my application pool set to use up to 5 worker processes

I have set up my session as such ...

<sessionState mode="StateServer" stateConnectionString="tcpip=localhost:42424" cookieless="false" timeout="20" />

I am using the File-Dependency Based Caching Provider

for logging I'm using DBLoggingProvider

Any help is very much apprichiated!

Thanks,

Scott

Does anyone know if you can run DNN 5.1.x Community edition using a web garden?  I really need to have more than one worker process running.  Any help would be very much apprechiated!

Thanks,

Scott

I talked to the foolks at DNN Profession and was told that DNN 5.1.x Community Edition does support web farms although it has become much more apparent that is not really what I need.  I've been doing some investigating and all I really need is to have the cache be invalidated using file based invalidation.  I've set my web config to use the file based caching provider like so ...

<caching defaultProvider="FileBasedCachingProvider">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="FileBasedCachingProvider" type="DotNetNuke.Services.Cache.FileBasedCachingProvider.FBCachingProvider, DotNetNuke.Caching.FileBasedCachingProvider" providerPath="~\Providers\CachingProviders\FileBasedCachingProvider\" />
      </providers>
    </caching>

In the dnn host setting I have cahcing set to heavey and file based but these settings do not seem to turn on the file based caching provider because I am not seeing any files created within the ./portals/_default/Cache  folder.  How do I turn file based caching on without setting up the web farm.  If I do have to set up a web farm can I set it up using just one machine (I know that's not the purpose of a web farm, but if it turns on file based caching that's what I need).

Thanks for your help!