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Show a static splash.html page while Forms app pool initializes

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Updated March 10, 2014

asked on March 5, 2014

I have been trying to show a static page to the user while the forms app initializes. I have added the following line to the web.config with no results.

<applicationInitialization remapManagedRequestsTo="splash.html" skipManagedModules="false" doAppInitAfterRestart="true">
            
        </applicationInitialization>

Is anyone else doing this while their form loads?

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replied on March 5, 2014 • Show version history

Please define "no results".

Also, do you have the Application Initialization module installed? What version of IIS are you running?

The applicationInitialization node is only used by the above mentioned module. It's baked into IIS 8.0+ and available as an additional install for IIS 7.5. Using it with any other version of IIS or without the module installed will result in it being ignored.

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replied on March 5, 2014

Devin-

I am running IIS 7.5 with the Application Initialization module installed. By "no results" I mean the splash.html page is not shown during app initialization. After a few moments the form loads as usual. I have placed the applicationinitialization code above in the C:\Program Files\Laserfiche\Laserfiche Forms\Forms\web.config.

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replied on March 5, 2014

Where do you have splash.html located? I believe it should be in the root of the application that is being started.

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replied on March 5, 2014

I have it in C:\Program Files\Laserfiche\Laserfiche Forms\Forms. As far as i know the form itself doesn't have a root folder.

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replied on March 5, 2014

Just a thought, but have you completely restarted IIS or even bounced the whole machine?

In doing some research, I stumbled across this cool tool that might help. Sometimes digging around in the config files is a pain and you end up missing something.

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replied on March 6, 2014

I have restarted IIS while testing this, issuing iisreset from a command prompt. I haven't restarted the server though.

Have you implemented a static page with your form application?

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replied on March 6, 2014

Not for Forms, but we've done it for WebLink. My web.config looks the same as yours does. I don't think I've ever seen the splash page actually fire, but that's because the AppInit module seems to do a good job of keeping it warmed up. You'll only see the splash if you happen to hit it immediately after it's been recycled.

After we update to IIS 8.0+ even that will go away because it can spin up the new instance of the application before it recycles the old one.

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replied on March 10, 2014

Would anyone from Laserfiche care chime in on whether or not a static splash.html page can be displayed while the application initializes?

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