How to Publish and Host RIDMS-WCAG

Owned by Mansuer Aizimu
Last updated: Jun 05, 2019
3 min read

1. Publishing in Visual Studio 2013

RIDMS was only run in Visual Studio 2013. So, following is the steps to publish in Visual Studio 2013

In solution explorer, select and right click on the project Ridms.Web and select Publish.


If there was no publishing profile was set before, you can create one now by selecting Custom option.


Enter the name you want for the Custom publishing profile and click OK


Click Next in the following screen


Select the publish method, we are selecting File System .


Enter the path of the location you want to publish the application, in our case we are publishing the application on the server location:

\\ncrws535\e$\WWWAPPSROOT\saf-sec-sur\4\ridms-sgdir then click Next


Select Configuration, in our case now, we are publishing for Dev, so select Debug then click Next


Now click Publish to publish to the specified location


2. Hosting the application

Connect to the server you want to host on through Remote Desktop Connection


Enter your credentials, usually they are your Windows sign in credentials.


After connecting to the server, open IIS Manager, you may search for IIS manager from Search Windows


IIS manager looks like the following


First we need to add an application pool. Right click on the node Application Pools and select Add Application Pool..


On the Add Application Pool dialog box, enter the name for this application pool, select the .Net CLR version and click OK


Our internet web applications are published on WWWAPPSMSSDEV, and the intranet applications are published on TCAPPSMSSDEV. our application RIDMS is an internet application.

Right click at the node you want to host the application on and select Add Application...


Enter an Alia name and select the application pool you created earlier. select the physical path where the application was published. then click OK.


If you want to test to see if the application was hosted successfully, you can select the application from the list of application from the left and click on the Browse  on the right.