Build>Configuration> Active(Debug) —-> try All configurations too

Build > General > Defing debug Constant (unchecked)

Build > General > Define trace Constant (checked)

Build > Output > bin\

Web > Start Action > try variations:

• Specific Page equivalent to Solution explorer > RClick Page.aspx > Set as Start Page
• Current page – page.aspx[.cs] displayed in Active tab in VS editor.
• Try other variations

Web > Servers

• Option 1: Use Visual Sudio Development Server > auto-assign port/Specific Port; Enable Edit and Continue (checked) – this is what it should normally be
• Option 2: Use IIS Web Server

Previously this fixed the problem but now it doesn’t work

1. c:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts commented out

1. c:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hostscommented out#::1             localhost2. removed env varFP_NO_HOST_CHECK

Debugging web application using IIS Web server

Install the IIS 6.0 Management Compatibility Components by using the Windows Vista Control Panel

• Control Panel, click Programs and Features, and then click Turn Windows features on or off (LHS).
• Open Internet Information Services.
• Open Web Management Tools.
• Open IIS 6.0 Management Compatibility.
• Select the check boxes for IIS 6 Metabase and IIS 6 configuration compatibility and IIS 6 Management Console.
• Click OK.

http://www.activexperts.com/support/activmonitor/online/ii6metabase/

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/125/metabase-compatibility-with-iis-7/

http://blog.scrappydog.com/2008/06/enabling-iis-6-metabase-compatibility.html

http://americanparanoia.com/wconnect/weblog/ShowEntry.blog?id=493

Change Security Settings for IIS

• Control Panel, click Programs and Features, and then click Turn Windows features on or off (LHS).
• Internet Information Services
• Security
• check Windows Authentication & basic Authentication
• open in IIS7 manager
• click web site virtual directory, e.g. museumoflondon
• in Features View/Security/Authentication select Windows & Basic Authentication “Enable”

In VS Web Application project/Properties/Web

• check radio button “Use IIS Web Server”

In web.config

<configuration><system.web>

<compilation debug=”true” />

<authentication mode=”Windows” />

VS Top Menu places relating to debugging

Project > Set as Startup Project

Build > Configuration Manager >Properties

Project=museumoflondon

Configuration = Debug

Platform= Any CPU

Build = True

Tools > Options > Debugging > General

Enable Source server Support; Print source server diagnostic messages

View > Toolbars > debug, Debug Location

Project > ASP.Net Configuration > Application Configuration > Debugging and Tracing > Configure Debugging and tracing > Tick Enable debugging

Ticking more options will display lots of logging info in the browser on aspx page invocation

Project config places relating to Debug

D:\vs_projects\museumoflondon\museumoflondon\museumoflondon.csproj.user (also contains debug settings)

D:\vs_projects\museumoflondon\museumoflondon\museumoflondon.csproj

Delete crap

D:\vs_projects\museumoflondon\museumoflondon\bin

D:\vs_projects\museumoflondon\museumoflondon\obj

D:\vs_projects\museumoflondon\museumoflondon\App_Data

C:\Users\julia\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files

More on MSDN: Debugging in VS2005

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sc65sadd%28v=VS.80%29.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e8z01xdh%28VS.80%29.aspx

Pro Apache Tomcat 6 , apress on-line in google books

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bgMKmsXVbTAC&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=administration+tool+for+tomcat+6+&source=web&ots=toCJPBjrXZ&sig=VDyJ5fNVhX1ON8n5IV9wBPO_wiU&hl=en#PPA109,M1

admin

Port: 3306

Data: C:\Data

I wish I came across it earlier!

1. Make sure you uninstall Tomcat if you have one installed already, otherwise Tomcat’s Windows Service Installer will fail with bizarre message about permissions
2. Make sure you have JRE 5 and Java EnvVars all set in System>Advalced>Environment Variables (JAVA-HOME, Path in System EnvVars, optionally Path in User’s Vars and CLASSPATH)
3. Just in case set a new EnvVar CATALINA-HOME=c:Tomcat6. This is my home dir for Tomcat, although WSI claims it will register CATALINA-HOME env-var automatically, last time it didn’t.
4. you can optionally read Setup notes herehttp://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/, although the install with WSI should be trivial, if nothing goes wrong.
5. You may want to restart PC, although it may be an overkill these days.
6. Choosing Port for Tomcat is a bit of a guesswork: you can start all web services before doing Tomcat installation and run SysInternalsSuit tool tcpview.exe. On my PC I mistakenly uninstalled .NET framework and never got around to installing it back. So tcpview gives me frighteningly sounding windows error message, but never mind, it still runs and scans the ports. Make a list of all taken TCP ports. Optionally you can check which processes are running on these ports using procexp.exe from the same SysInternalsSuit. Make a list of ports and process IDs of interest in tcpview then go to procexp and check the names and descriptions against process numbers. Finally you can figure out which ports you can take, obviously the port num should be > 1024. Anything in 80XX range will be fine. Often servers require additional ports, some of which may be temporary and some grab free ports and make them permanent. To be dead sure that your chosen port and any additional ports the Tomcat may decide to grab will be available, start all your servers, i.e. JBoss, MySQL and so on. And then do the installation of Tomcat. If there is a conflict it will be discovered immediatelly, and it will also avoid potential future conflicts of ports.

Installation

1. Download Windows Service Installer for Tomcat6 from here: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi and save in C:Downloads
2. you can also download zip‘ed Tomcat, but only for reference. Do not try to run bin/startup.bat or bin/tomcat6.exe in it. Firstly, because it is restricted to port 8080, and in my case, port 8080 is already taken by JBoss.
   
3. Turn off Firewall – it is not essential, but it prevents Windows complaining about security when WSI tries to grab the port.
4. Run WSI and choose your config settings. Mine are
   Home Dir: C:Tomcat6
   Port: 8086
   Check box: Run as Windows Service
   ( I will change it to manual startup later, but for now this setting will give you an immediate feedback if installation succeeded)
   login: admin admin

   Test it

   Start Browser and type: http://localhost:8086

   If you have any .war files try to deploy and access them.

   Finish Off

   Go to firewall settings and add port 8086 to exceptions, select scope: local network

   Turn on Firewall

   Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services and change Apache Tomcat6 service to Start “manual”.

   This is it.

So, I decided to to upgrade Tomcat to v6, rather then fixing v5.5, which would require a complete re-installation anyway.

Installing Tomcat5.5 with Wndows Installer was a piece of cake last time. I wanted to keep 5.5 and fix it later and install 6.0 on a different port. The excercise which was expected to be trivial, turned into a 2 hour going around in circles, untill I discovered the solution here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@tomcat.apache.org/msg15640.html

To stop press CTRL+C and watch cmd for 5 minutes!

I am uber-annoyed!

cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element ‘faces-config’

Fond the answer here:

http://prideafrica.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html