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ClickOnce Hosting Requirements?

I would like to publish my app to a website so that users can download it via a url and the app can update from the same location.

I have "standard" Linux hosting, but I get a message when trying to publish with ClickOnce: The web server does not have FrontPage Server Extensions installed.

Does Windows (ASP.NET?) Require hosting? If the application is running like a desktop application, I thought Linux hosting would be fine.

Thanks in advance for this clarification!

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I'm sure Visual Studio will try to use FrontPage Server Extensions if you specify the http URI as Publish Folder Location. If you are publishing to a server without FPSE support, use the ftp URI (or UNC path if you have direct access to the server).

I've always used ftp to deploy my web-hosted ClickOnce applications and it works.



You can specify "Installation Folder URL" as the http URI - just make sure you are using ftp for the publish location.

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Frontpage Server Extensions are only required for ClickOnce publishing from Visual Studio. As far as I know, most of the click, sometime magic happens in the browser.



See this article for more information

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You can publish to your local master, then run the wizard in the manifest and change the install location to the uris of your website, and finally manually copy the files to your server.

Not the most automatic solution in the world, but it will work.

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