So I have been using Subtext for quite some time now.. ok so my Blog only looks like it has been running since Jan 2008, but I had some issues on my Database I tried to repair it but no joy so I decided to kill it and re-start with a fresh one.
When I started my blog originally I had an "offline" copy running on my XP on IIS 6, however since then I have got myself a new laptop running Vista Ultimate. so I installed IIS on it and downloaded a backup of my Subtext Database and then created the website. ha ha not that simple in IIS 7.0! so here goes my "how to" to get subtext up and running on Vista.
So First things first if you haven't done so already install IIS onto your Vista Machine, you can do this through the Control Panel and instead of Add/Remove Programs its called Programs and Features. Then in there you can Turn Windows Features on or off. Make sure you also install classic ASP as well.
Right one that is installed load up your IIS Manager:
As you will see the IIS manager in Vista is quite different from that for Windows XP but then again I guess the Difference in XP was pretty big from that in Windows 2000 (that long ago I cannot remember)!
For this example I had an offline copy of my Website sitting in C:\Website\Offline\ but it doesn't really matter where you place it, if you wanted to you could put it in your wwwroot folder in inetpub.
Also make sure you have a copy of your subtext Database restored in your SQLExpress if not then there will be a post on how to do that later on.
The next thing to do is to add a new Virtual Directory
enter in the details for the Virtual Directory.
For my Alias I called it Subtext_Offline
Enter in the Path; my path was:
C:\Websites\Offline
Click OK.
The next thing you want to do is Convert the Virtual Directory to an application to do this right click on the Virtual Directory:
Once that has been done you will need to change your web.config to point to your local database. You will then have an offline copy of your subtext website working on vista.
