ServerValidator Demo

As part of the Microsoft Web Platform Hosting Program, Microsoft created the Shared Hosting Guidance Content Map ; it references a set of guides, step-by-step instructions, best practices, and scri...

This set of documentation describes how hosting providers can prepare to join the Microsoft Web Hosting Gallery —a comprehensive marketplace of hosting providers—while standing out as 100% WebMatri...

Introduction This article will walk you through installing the required server components to be WebMatrix compatible and fulfill the Spotlight requirements for the Web Hosting Gallery . Prerequisit...

Introduction ServerValidator is an extensible, plugin-based tool which checks if your server is ready to support WebMatrix. Typically, ServerValidator is run by a system administrator after they ha...

As customers sign up for your hosting service, you need to provision sites/users for them on your server and then send them their server credentials. One way to send them their credentials is over ...

Generate a Profile XML File When a user signs up for an account, your welcome email should contain an attachment containing account settings (also known as a Profile XML file) that can be imported ...

Configure Sites for Web Deploy Publishing At this point, your server is configured with all the software required to support WebMatrix publishing. The Web Deploy 2.0 installer created all the neces...

This article explains how to provision an IIS frontend server with full WebMatrix compatibility in an automated manner. It fully automates all steps described in the rest of this documentation, wit...

MySQL Installation WebPI supports installing MySQL in developer mode, but this is not suitable for a shared hosting environment. Instead, you should download the latest stable version of MySQL from...

After you install the required server components and have validated your server configuration , you supply a sample account to the Microsoft Web Hosting Gallery team in the form of a Profile XML fi...