I've got the VSS internet service working perfectly on my laptop on port 80, and I've even got my second computer accessing the database over the internet on the laptop. Now, the situation is that the server that I want the VSS database to be finally on is a server that has port 80 blocked, so I'd like to use 8080. I've got everything setup, and I can even access
http://server.com:8080/SourceSafe/VssService.asmx
The authentication screen comes up and everything occurs as expected. Also, locally on the server, I can get to the VSS database fine since I can use port 80.
I'm running Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, and I just can't figure out how to make a non-local client access the VSS web service over something other than port 80.
I've even tried updating the key under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Sourcesafe\Databases\Web Services to have :8080 in the title, but when the error message comes up, it says "Can't access http://server.com:8080/SourceSafe/VssService.asmx." It's almost like it is stripping out the :8080 when it reads the registry.
Also, on the server side, in VSS admin, when I go to Server-> Configure and I try to add :8080 to the server name (as described in http://alinconstantin.homeip.net/webdocs/scc/VSS_Internet.htm), it says that it doesn't allow anything other than a DNS name or IP address.
What can i do!
Thank you,
Kevin
Visual source safe internet service on port other than 80
Chris Dodd
Hi Kevin,
The Beta2 release of VSS 2005 supports VSS Internet access only on default ports (80/443 for http/https). You should upgrade to the RTM edition if you want to use port numbers different than default.
With the RTM edition you'll have to specify the connection string as servername:8080 (both in VS and SSAdmin).
Note that when port numbers are explicitely specified in the connection string, the same port number will be tried for both http/https, depending on the Tools/Options settings in VisualStudio (if automatic switching between http/https will be tried, the same port number will be used).
Alin
Jay_
From the VSS point of view, yes, it is possible to use VSS2005 final + IDE other than VS2005 final to use remote through ports different than default.
There were however 2 posts that reported failures to install VSS2005 final when they had beta software installed on the machine (in their case SQL 2005 beta and TFS beta). I have no idea whether VSS2005 final will not complain about VS2005 beta, too (but that's a question for the Setup forum)
Alin
Rishi Khetan
Would it be possible to only upgrade VSS to RTM and use VS 2005 Beta 2 to connect on a different port
Kevin