Vevocart provides shopping cart software for small to medium sized businesses and in this part we look at how Vevocart can be installed on Windows 2008 IIS 7 for web hosting purposes.

The advantages of moving toward IIS 7 would be for the purpose of SEO, a plug-in can be downloaded from Microsoft which provides the ability for URL rewrites.

The advantage of this plug-in is Canonicalization, and Site Reorganization which can be performed with no code rewrites.

To continue now will discuss how to setup IIS 7 to work with your Vevocart e-commerce hosting.  These steps assume that you have already configured your Vevocart website and assigned a dedicated application pool for your Vevocart e-commerce site.

1. Open Internet Information Services MMC
2. Click on the dedicated application pool and click “Advanced Settings…”
3. Change “Managed Pipeline Mode” to classic.
4. Click OK to save these settings
5. Click on the Vevocart site to enable the settings
6. Click on the “Handler Mappings”
7. On the actions menu now click on “Revert To Inherited”.
8. Now you will see all the ASP.NET handlers now exists for this site

This is how simple it is to setup IIS 7 to work with your Vevocart installation.

I suggest if you need any additional help how to host or configure your Vevocart installation contact us at Click IT Solutions and we can provide our IT Consultancy services, our experience lies with development, deployment, and hosting of Vevocart and other ASP.NET solutions.  Contact us at (02) 9029 5194 or you can email us at: info@clickitsolutions.com.au.

Tags: ASP.NET, IIS 7, Vevocart

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