publishing Win application on local Network

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I have create windows application which will be used by employees within local network. For each update i have provide Executable to employee via "email/shared drive" and they have re-install. I found this article on codeproject. I followed all the step and facing an exception each time i publish.
the exception is as follow

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Error     63           Failed to connect to 'http://192.168.0.119/Application_Publish/' with the following error: Unable to create the Web site 'http://192.168.0.119/Application_Publish'.  The Web server does not appear to have FrontPage Server Extensions installed.                       1              1              AdvisorLoginSolution

I assume the problem is with "FrontPage Server". Can please help me with this problem?

Posted 21-Feb-14 1:33am

Kalpesh Bhadra

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Mike Meinz · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-21T01:39:00

Solution 1

When I implemented ClickOnce publish capability for my applications in a Local Area Network, I used a file server shared folder and put the UNC path to the shared folder in the Publishing Location and Installation Folder URL TextBoxes in the Publish wizard dialog.

Because I used a file server shared folder instead of a web server, I did not have to install any extensions on the file server.

Posted 21-Feb-14 1:39am

Mike Meinz

Updated 21-Feb-14 2:02am

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Kalpesh Bhadra 27-Feb-14 4:14am

@mike: thx for the help it worked with shared drive on local server. but there are other documents too shared on the same drive which i dont want to expose to everyone and i do not have permission to create separate shared drive for that. I want this to be hosted on my server then only share the download link with user. Is there any other way to publish it? my server is win server 2008 r2

Mike Meinz 27-Feb-14 7:21am

If you want to use a web server, you must install the FrontPage Extensions. For me, it was easier to use a file server.

On your file server, you can create a directory in the existing file share folder and put different permissions on that directory. Just because it is a single file share folder, does not mean you can't have subdirectories within it with different permissions to allow or disallow users access to those subdirectories.

Alternatively, if you wanted to create a new file share for software distribution, why wouldn't your management allow that? There is no harm in creating extra file shares with appropriate permissions.

Krunal Rohit · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-21T01:44:00

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The Web server does not appear to have FrontPage Server Extensions installed.

The error itself is saying something. :)
Try to install FrontPage server on server first and then publish it.

-KR

Posted 21-Feb-14 1:44am

Krunal Rohit

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Kalpesh Bhadra 21-Feb-14 8:21am

@krunal: thank you for your reply
I had installed frontPage Server on serverside
here is download link for frontpage

http://www.iis.net/downloads/community/2011/07/rtr-frontpage-server-extensions-for-iis-75-on-windows-server-2008-r2-and-windows-7

though it throws same exception