visual studio's folder publish is not compatible for SFTP webhotel

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visual studio's folder publish is not compatible for SFTP webhotel

venus-messiah manzar-nejad 0

hello. i have published my C# asp.net webforms project by folder in visual studio 22. it have four different masterpages. i have uploaded all files in file manager's webhotel, through FileZilla. but when i press a button in my page, it appears codes of the page, not the designed page. please check your-event.se and choose any button, then you will se what i mean.

their technical support tells that their system supports .html or .php files. my project hve qlready only one index.html file. but i suppose that their system cannot recognize which html file it should start, does it? besides converting to html files, looses masterpage dependencies, doesnt it?

if i convert to php file it lose its masterpage depenencies, doesnt it?

how should i solve my problem? if you know a webhotel supporting FTP server, please let me know.

i appreciate your quick responds. very kind regards

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Answer 1

Michael Taylor 60,326

If your webhost provider doesn't support hosting ASP.NET apps then there is nothing you can do to make this work. Your app would require that the host you're running on have the ASP.NET v4 runtime installed. If it isn't installed then your app cannot run. You should get concrete information from them about what web frameworks they support. If they only support static sites (html) and PHP then you are limited to those options.

Master pages are an ASP.NET Web Forms thing. If you aren't able to use webforms then master pages won't work.

venus-messiah manzar-nejad 0 Reputation points

2025-05-23T18:39:47.88+00:00

dear mr taylor, thanks for your respond. i am not sure on hat you mean with:

"Your app would require that the host you're running on have the ASP.NET v4 runtime installed." is the webhotel provider should have ASP.NET v4 installed?

my website worked for one year very proper (by FTP server), but the provider raised the value 8 times more expensive and i couldnt afford. therefore i changed to other providers, but they support only SFTP not FTP. i asked them to give me FTP, like their old customers, but they are telling that it was old and doesnt exist anymore??!! i dont know how they convert or exchange from FTP to SFTP??!! they dont tell me!!!?

their system doesnt suport .aspx files, only .html or .php files, but i know that, if i convert to any of these exrensions, they losse their materpage dependencies.

if you know a webhotel provider, which supports FTP, please let me know, i appreciate.

very kind regards
venus-messiah manzar-nejad 0 Reputation points

2025-05-23T18:47:34.6666667+00:00

hello again, waht do you suggest me to do by telling me:

"If they only support static sites (html) and PHP then you are limited to those options."

should i convert the files to .html or .php? .aspx files have .aspx.cs files too and .html or .php cannot be enough. what should i do? only change provider i suppose. if you know one wupporting ASP.NET , please tell me about . very kind regards
Michael Taylor 60,326 Reputation points

2025-05-23T18:50:05.6866667+00:00

FTP/SFTP has absolutely nothing to do with hosting ASP.NET. FTP/SFTP is simply a file transfer protocol. Let's just be clear about this. Transfer your files to your new provider. Then go to the file system on your new provider and confirm all the files are there. If they aren't then the issue is with the file transfer. Since we have no way of knowing what tools you're using only you can check and confirm this. If the provider only allows you to transfer HTML/PHP files then of course this isn't going to work. But honestly that makes no sense. A web app, even static ones, require way more file types than just those 2. At a minimum CSS, JS, PNG and other file types are needed. Work with your provider to identify what you need to do to get your file structure pushed to their server. This is a communication you and your provider need to have. We cannot help you with this.

You also need to ask them what runtime platform(s) they support. If they only support static web apps and PHP then your site isn't going to work. Ask them specifically about whether they support ASP.NET v4 apps. If they don't support it then you need to find a different provider. Most providers will support this so if your current provider doesn't then find a different provider.

There isn't much we can do from this side. Renaming files and whatnot isn't going to get your app to run. You need to work with your provider to get all the files you need to run your app hosted on the server and then have them help you set up your server to use the runtime you need. This is a service that providers are expected to provide you with and partially what you are paying them for.
Michael Taylor 60,326 Reputation points

2025-05-23T18:53:53.9766667+00:00

should i convert the files to .html or .php?

No. Renaming files will not allow your app to suddenly work. When you publish your app all the files in the publish folder must be deployed, as is, to the server. You cannot change anything about them or your app won't work. Note that .cs files won't be part of publish. Publish will produce a bin folder with your binaries and collect up all the content files you need like configs, .aspx, .css, .js, images, etc. You need all this, unchanged, to run your app.

Most web hosting providers can support ASP.NET. Ultimately you just need to ask for a server that has it. The provider you use is dependent upon where you're at and what price point you're looking for. Common providers include MS Azure, GoDaddy and Bluehost. But there are many providers with various levels of support.
venus-messiah manzar-nejad 0 Reputation points

2025-05-23T18:58:33.26+00:00

thanks for your respond, i sent them message to check if they support ASP.NET or not?

through filezilla i uploaded my files which are .aspx and another like MP4, MP3, png and so on. my project is advanced and have MS sql database too. thanks for your support. my C# webform is network v7.4.

again, if you know a webhotel provider which support ASP.NET v4, please let me know.

very kind regards

Answer 2

to support a webform project, your web host has to have windows, IIS and asp.net 4.* support. as your host supports php, its probably a Wordpress host, which does not support asp.net webforms.

you will probably need to need to pick a hosting provider, or convert your site to php. if you need to use sqlserver, that needs to one of their options. most php hosts support MySql

https://www.w3schools.com/php/

as this is a ms site, the only hosting provider we can recommend is azure:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/

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BD9000 0

There's a ton of web hosting companies that support ASP.Net and for dirt cheap too!
I'm using Interserver www.interserver.net for my small to medium websites, for corporate sites use Azure or anything that requires more redundancy.

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