Installation guide¶

Artifacts¶

• KissLog.Backend-{version}-win-x64.zip

• KissLog.Frontend-{version}-win-x64.zip

Artifacts can be downloaded from https://github.com/KissLog-net/KissLog-server.

Services¶

• IIS Web server with ASP.NET Core Runtime 6 installed

• MongoDB Community Server (version >= 6.0.x)

• MS-SQL Server or MySQL Community Server

MongoDB¶

For instructions installing MongoDB server, please check the official tutorial.

MS-SQL / MySql¶

We will not cover the installation guide for these services. There is a high possibility that the existing server already has a running instance of MySQL or MS-SQL server.

IIS web applications¶

1. On the machine hosting the IIS server, install ASP.NET Core Runtime 6.

2. Create two IIS applications:

   • KissLog.Backend

   • KissLog.Frontend

3. Update the Application Pool settings for both of the applications to the following:

KissLog.Frontend	KissLog.Backend

4. Copy into each IIS application folder the corresponding deploy package

KissLog.Frontend	KissLog.Backend
C:\inetpub\wwwroot\KissLog.Frontend	C:\inetpub\wwwroot\KissLog.Backend

KissLog.Backend¶

Replace the following mandatory properties with corresponding values:

KissLog.Frontend¶

Replace the following mandatory properties with corresponding values:

Startup steps¶

1. Make a single request to KissLog.Backend root URL (“http://kisslog-backend.your_domain.com”)

   If everything went successful, you will see the KissLog.Backend home page.

   

2. Make a single request to the KissLog.Frontend root URL (“http://kisslog-frontend.your_domain.com”).

   If the startup process went successful, you will see the home page.

   

Quick checklist¶

1. Make sure you deploy and run KissLog.Backend first

2. If there are any confiuguration errors, you should see them under the \logs folder.

3. KissLog.Backend will try to connect to MongoDB. If the MongoDB server is not reachable, you should see an error:

   C:\inetpub\wwwroot\KissLog.Backend\Logs\06-02-2023.log¶

   KissLog.Backend startup failed
   DatabaseName: KissLogBackend
   Exception: A timeout occured after 30000ms selecting a server using CompositeServerSelector{ Selectors = MongoDB.Driver.MongoClient+AreSessionsSupportedServerSelector, LatencyLimitingServerSelector{ AllowedLatencyRange = 00:00:00.0150000 } }. Client view of cluster state is { ClusterId : "1", ConnectionMode : "Automatic", Type : "Unknown", State : "Disconnected", Servers : [{ ServerId: "{ ClusterId : 1, EndPoint : "Unspecified/localhost3:27017" }", EndPoint: "Unspecified/localhost:27017", ReasonChanged: "Heartbeat", State: "Disconnected", ServerVersion: , TopologyVersion: , Type: "Unknown", HeartbeatException: "MongoDB.Driver.MongoConnectionException: An exception occurred while opening a connection to the server.
   ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (11001): No such host is known.
   

4. KissLog.Frontend will try to connect to MS-SQL / MySql server.

   On the first run, KissLog.Frontend will also create the database (if not already exists).

   Any database errors, such as connection errors or database permissions, will be saved under the \Logs folder.
   Important:

   If the SQL user does not have permissions to create the database, you will have to create it manually.

   The database generation script will be generated under KissLog.Frontend\logs\{Provider}-database.sql.txt.
5. KissLog applications (KissLog.Frontend and KissLog.Backend) connect to each other using HTTP requests.

   Make sure there is no firewall blocking the connection.
6. If the application fails to start and there are no log messages, enable IIS logs:

   Update web.config, set <aspNetCore stdoutLogEnabled="true" />, then restart the application.
   C:\inetpub\wwwroot\KissLog.Backend\web.config¶

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <configuration>
       <location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
           <system.webServer>
               <handlers>
                   <add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModuleV2" resourceType="Unspecified" />
               </handlers>
               <aspNetCore processPath="dotnet" arguments=".\KissLog.Backend.AspNetCore.dll" stdoutLogEnabled="true" stdoutLogFile=".\logs\stdout" hostingModel="inprocess" />
           </system.webServer>
       </location>
   </configuration>
   <!--ProjectGuid: 4EC40754-6618-4D7D-B45E-C7FE1D6B8EF6-->
   

   Important:

   Create an empty logs folder if one does not already exist.

7. If no logs are generated (including no IIS logs), double check that you have ASP.NET Core Runtime 6 installed.