Since I got a new computer (or rather an old one repaired), I first installed IIS switched the DefaultAppPool to .NET Framework Version 4.0 and deployed Orchard from my solution.
When I then open Orchard in my browser, all I got is a white page. Looking at the IIS log files shows that an internal server error:
2014-02-07 10:26:48 127.0.0.1 GET /orchard – 80 – 127.0.0.1 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+6.1;+WOW64;+rv:27.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/27.0 500 19 33 1
This unfortunately didn’t help much. Then I remember that I already once had a similar and had to use the ASP.NET IIS Registration Tool to install the version of ASP.NET and register ASP.NET in IIS by executing the following in a DOS prompt:
cd C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319 aspnet_regiis.exe -i
After doing this and setting the rights for the DefaultAppPool user again so that Orchard can write to the App_Data directory, my Orchard Installation was working fine.
It’s just a pity that there is not a clear error message written to the log file in such cases…
still didn’t get me up and running… server 2012 seems to be the headache
Check the Folder permissions, TEST with everyone full access.
Thanks
In order to get it working you need to:
1) have ASP.NET properly registered in IIS
2) your application pool user must have rights on the App_Data directory in the Orchard installation
I’ve never tried it on Windows 2012, so I’m not sure whether you need any additional steps for this OS.