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Asked: 2026-05-13T08:14:47+00:00

I have website (setup on IIS) in a VPS setting. Since I dont have

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I have website (setup on IIS) in a VPS setting. Since I dont have VS installed on the VPS, I would like to connect it from my dev machine and debug the source code.

From my dev machine, I opened up VS 2008 and did File -> Open Website -> specified the http address and clicked OK. I get the error

"Unable to open the website 'http://xxx..'. The Web server does not have the FrontPage Server extensions installed"
  1. Is this the correct way of debugging a website hosted remotely?
  2. I have IIS 6.0 on the VPS. When I go to Add Remove Progrsms -> Add remove Windows Components -> Application Server -> IIS, I was expecting to see FrontPage Server Extensions. I do not.
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  1. Editorial Team

    FrontPage extensions are for developing (or rather managing pages and adminstration of) a website, not debugging it.

    You need to have a debugging host setup on the remote server and have the correct permissions and ports open between the server and development machine.

    Here are a couple of articles with deatils of how to set this up.

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