Shared Windows Server Info for Developers

About the server:

• MS Windows Server 2003 SP2
• IIS 6
• MSSQL 2005 SP2
• FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions
• ASP 3.0
• ASP.NET 1.1 SP1
• ASP.NET 2.0 SP1
• ASP.NET 3.0 SP1
• ASP.NET 3.5
• AJAX 1.0
• SQLXML 4.0
• MSXML 6.0
• XSL
• SOAP
• Perl 5
• SmarterStats
• Filezilla FTP Server

Default Document Order:

• Default.aspx
• Default.asp
• Default.htm
• Default.html
• index.asp
• index.htm
• index.html
• index.shtml
• home.asp
• home.htm
• home.html

A default document tells the web server how to behave when it receives a request for your site that does not specify a particular page. For example, when a web server receives a request for http://yourdomain.com, how should it react? It first looks for Default.aspx. If it doesn't find that, it looks for Default.asp, and so on until it finds a match.

When we first setup your account, we included a default.htm file. You will need to rename/remove this file for your site to work properly with default documents further down the list.

ASP and ASP.NET Information:

• We fully support ASP, ASP.NET and ADO.NET on our Shared Windows server.
• By default, new IIS domains will be enabled for ASP.net 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5. If you would like to change your .NET version, please send an email to support@easystreet.com.
• AJAX 1.0 is available for .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 only.

Sending Email

• CDO for classic ASP
• Code Example
• Persits ASPemail Basic
• Documentation
• Premium features are not supported

Perl Information:

• We are currently running ActiveState ActivePerl build 820.
• Perl users do not need to call the bash shell in their scripts.
• Perl tends to work best in our environment when used as a scripting language embedded within an Active Server Page. If used as a stand-alone script, the file must have an extension of .pl to function correctly.

Database Information:

• MSSQL DB hostname: sql.wsh.easystreet.com
• Connections to sql.wsh.easystreet.com need to be made on port 1433.
• Your MSSQL username and database name were included in the email with your new account information.
• Your MSSQL username/password are not the same as your FTP credentials.
• You may connect to your MSSQL DB from an external location. We recommend using MSSQL Server Management Studio Express.
• You may use a DSN to connect to your database.
• Additional Information
• What's in an ADO Connection String?
• EasyStreet does not support Microsoft Access.
• If you decide to use Access and you are having trouble writing to a database file or a text file with your access database (the error messages will vary), please send an email to support@easystreet.com asking us to set the Internet Guest Account to "Allow Write Access" to the directories and files to which you need to write.

Stats and Logs:

• All IIS domains use the W3C Extended Log File format.
• EasyStreet provides SmarterStats as the log analyzing software on our Shared Windows platform.
• Log files are stored in the logs folder of each space.
• Log files are rolled weekly and retained forever.

FrontPage Information

• Please click here for FrontPage extensions information as well as FrontPage/Expression Web setup information.

Misc Information:

• Directory Browsing is turned off.
• If you already have a digital certificate, you may use it on our Shared Windows platform. You can request SSL be setup by sending an email to our sales department at info@easystreet.com. NOTE, we will need the .pfx file that contains your private key. Please do NOT email the password to us.
• We do not support WebTrends Log Analyzer extended plugins.
• We do not allow user-supplied executable files, ISAPI plugins or COM objects.
• We do not support WebDev extensions.
• SSI (Server Side Includes) may only be performed in .shtml files.