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Today I installed/enabled WebOrb for .NET & IIS7 on a Windows7 machine.

Initially the WebOrbConsole page ( which is a Flex app ) loaded without issue, but at some point after a reboot I revisited the console page and it was blank ( ie  I saw nothing but the default blue Flex background; the console never loaded. I didn’t even see the preloader ).

I’m completely new to IIS. ,NET and WebOrb so after doing the obvious stuff (restarting the server etc) I found myself a little stuck. Thankfully Dan came to the rescue and got things working and I thought I’d relay what he did, as it was a little odd. We still don’t really know what was the cause of the issue. It didn’t seem to be the permissions, although that would seem a likely cause.

1. Make a copy of the default weborb folder ( it will be named weborb30 or something similar, depending on the version of WebOrb you are using – the default location for me is C:\inetpub\wwwroot\weborb30 ).
2. Rename it to whatever you want  ( e.g. weborbdan )
3. Bring up the IIS management console (on Win7 this is start->control panel->system & security->Administrative Tools->IIS Manager). It should look something like this:
4. Right-click on “Default Web Site” and choose “Add Application…” You should see a window popup that looks like this:
   
5. Give it an alias ( we used the same name as the folder  i.e. weborbdan )
6. Next, browse to the physical path of the folder. The popup should look something like this:
7. Now open up a browser and navigate to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\[nameOfYourFolder] ( e.g. we would browse to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\weborbdan )

The strange thing was that we then copied the contents of weborbdan back in to weborb30, and that started working again, so something had obviously gone slightly awry.

Note: If you want to know the difference between an Application & a Virtual Directory look here or here