Continua Installed, Setup IIS manually

If the software gets installed, If I go to IIS  manager and try to setup manually to Continua  IIS installed locaiton and point to the web.config page, I cannot get it work correctly. 

What are some basic steps to test IIS setting to Continua?

You shouldn’t need to do anything in IIS other than make sure it is installed before installing Continua, once the Continua Server is installed, Install the Continua Agent (it’s an option at the end of the server install that is on by default). After the Agent is installed, open a browser on the the same machine, and just point it at http://localhost - that should be enough to see the initial setup page.

I installed the Server/Agent, but I am still having problems bringing up the web page. FYI, I had problems when installing it that it couldn’t find the share path. Right now when I tried to go to LocalHost or LocalHost:88, I get the Erro 500.0 Internal Server Error.

Hi Robert, we will need a bit more information to help resolve this error. Was the website created successfully created in IIS? Which version of .NET do you have installed on the server?

As for your share path, what is the share path that you are using? Make sure that the sharepath is a UNC path (ie. \<path>) rather than using mapped drives. Also, check that the user that is running the Continua Server service has access to the share path

Thank you for your reply.

I tried to re-install it again by uninstalling first and get the same result.  I installed it in my computer and I am the person that it is going to use it.  The IIS website installed properly, at least, no errors, but it does not open; you can see the attachment.  I have VS2008, VS2010, and VS2012 installed in my computer.  I used a UNC Path to my computer's folder with share all rights ( I can see it in my network explorer.


Thanks for your help



Did you install the 32bit version on a 64 bit machine? If so then this SO topic may help : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11629029/calling-loadlibraryex-on-isapi-filter

After more research, this does appear to be the problem. I highly recommend you download and install the 64bit version.

http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/2011/Apr/04/Error-on-64-Bit-Install-of-IIS-LoadLibraryEx-failed-on-aspnetfilterdll

Yes, I did.  Even I download the previous version of the download, just in case that it was a bug on the lastest, but I had the same errors.  Is it somewhere on the website that it is pointing to the 32 bit DLLs?


That second link I posted has more info - http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/2011/Apr/04/Error-on-64-Bit-Install-of-IIS-LoadLibraryEx-failed-on-aspnetfilterdll - it looks like your IIS is configured to use the 32bit asp.net by default, have a look at the Fix Filters section.

Well this still an issue.   On the article mentions that 2 solutions: one for 32 bits and 64 bits.   The “correct” solution would be to make the 64 bits to work, but no luck.  I followed the instructions, but I still get my Error 500.  So I changed it and did the 32 bits solution.  It seems to work, at least I am getting a screen from Continua, however, it cannot connect to the server (see my screen shot).  

Now I restart the Continua CI Server and even the other 2 Continua services and no luck.  Any other ideas?


Robert J.

Never mind... I finally got it to work.  At the end, I checked the Event Log and gave me an idea about the SharePath, it was not pointing to my original path that I assigned before I tried to re-installing it.  So at the end:

  1. I set my Pool to run as 32 bits 
  2. Restart all my Continua Services
  3. Refresh the ContinuaCI website and browse it....


Finally, let's start playing with this Application.


Thank you for your help.

Robert J.