separate vaultservice website from database server?

crichardson · Post by **crichardson** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:28 am

Is it possible to separate have the VaultService website on an IIS server which is separate (on a different server) to the SQL Server Vault database server? If so, is it as simple as copying the VaultService website files to a newly created website on the new IIS server, changing the connection string info in web.config to reference the database server (instead of Local)?

Regards,
Clive Richardson

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:41 am

Absolutely.

It's better to reinstall Vault, rather than copy files, as so many directory rights need to be set on the new Vault server machine.

Backup your database. Uninstall Vault on the old machine, keeping the database. Then re-install Vault on the new IIS machine, pointing it to the database on the SQL Server machine.

In order for Vault to be able to access the database, you'll need to use a custom account (rather than the local Network Service or Machine\ASPNET account) for the IIS Process model during installation if you're using Windows Authentication for SQL Server, or use SQL Server authentication in the SQL Server Setup portion of the installation.

crichardson · Post by **crichardson** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 7:48 am

Thank you Linda, we'll give this a try.
Clive