vault w/o full access to server?

[jwnswitz]

I'm running a web site off of a hosting server, which allows me to make virtual directories into applications, as well as a single database on MSSQL server. Would it be possible to install vault manually? I don't have access to run msi's or get to the machine.config, unfortunately.

--Jason

[jclausius]

Jason:

Unfortunately, the Vault server does not run simply under a virtual directory.

There is a registry entry which is required to encrypt database passwords stored in web.config. Also, the Vault server's ASP.Net process account will need read/write security rights to some non-virtual directories ( particularly %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys ). These directories are on a dialog during the Vault server installation.

I guess you could install the Vault server to a local machine (to get the binaries), make modifications to vault.config / web.config, write down the security changes, and ask the hosting provider to make the changes for security.

Also note, there are some hosting providers out there who are offering Vault service - for example, OrcsWeb.

[jwnswitz]

Thanks for the quick response; I'll look into that solution, but failing that, would it be possible to have the local development machine also be the server, and only use the remote database as the repository? Would that be an effective solution for a small number of machines? (2, possibly 3 at most)

Also, would those security changes be on the machine level, or on the directory level? I'm using webhost4life's shared hosting, so I'm not the only one it would potentially effect.

--Jason

[jclausius]

Depending on the hardware, this shouldn't be a problem whatsoever. In fact, I would suspect most 1-3 user configurations have the server running on someone's machine.

As for webhost4life, have you asked them about Vault? I know of at least one instance where they set up Vault. They already might have a plan of action for setting up a Vault configuration.

HTH

[jwnswitz]

Thanks again for the info; I have a pending support ticket. For anyone else reading this, I also found a blog post detailing remote install, for those with ability to at least create a new database (which I don't have with their premium account, but others may):

http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/bsblog/ ... 35996.aspx

So far I've been very impressed by support teams of SourceGear as well as webhost4life.

[lyledodge]

Check this thread, and see if the instructions on orangetoad work for you. I'm running my stuff fine on webhost4life. http://support.sourcegear.com/viewtopic.php?p=22259