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  1. On-Site Setup
  2. Enterprise Edition Installation

Microsoft IIS

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Requirements

  1. IIS 7 or above with .NET 9 hosting bundle installed

We strongly recommend SSL for non-local domain based websites

If you are running IIS as a cluster node make sure to read the .

Required downloads

To setup ngSurvey on IIS you will need to first download and install the latest package. Once installed you may download the ngSurvey archive from following location.

Installation steps

  1. Create a ngSurvey folder on the machine hosting the IIS Server

  2. unzip the ngSurvey package zip content that folder

  3. In Windows open the IIS Manager

  4. In the Sites tree of the IIS Manager, right click Sites and Add website

  5. Set the Physical path folder to the folder where you unzipped the content of the ngSurvey zip install package

  6. Once you have created the site, go to the Application Pools in the IIS Manager and open the properties of the website application pool, the default name is the name of the website you just created

  7. Set the .NET CLR Version to V4

  8. In the Advanced settings of the application pool set the Start Mode option to "AlwaysRunning" and the "Idle Time-out (minutes)" option to 0

  9. Open the web.config file using an text editor.

  10. Uncomment the environment variable line and set the to the server hosting the ngSurvey database. If you're using MySQL as your database back please follow the .

    • ConnectionStrings:NGSurveyDB Connectionstring to the server hosting the ngSurvey database

  11. Open your browser and navigate to your site root

  12. Use following default credentials for ngSurvey Email : ngsadmin password : admin

  13. Once logged make sure to change the default admin password with a password of your choice from the screen.

  14. You may also setup additional settings like mail servers, captcha and translation services from the page.

  15. Enjoy a great survey tool!

You may for the health / working status your ngSurvey installation at https://yourrootsite/api/system/status

Database setup

Out of the box ngSurvey will automatically configure / create / update the database that is specified in your connectionstring.

Note that If you run your container under AWS ngSurvey will automatically pick up all RDS connection properties. Database requires SQL Server 2016 or above or MySQL 8 or above

You may also use the link to setup your database using the provided user interface.

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cluster / scale out setup section
Microsoft .NET 9 IIS Hosting Bundle
ngSurvey installation zip package
connection string
MySQL configuration tutorial
user management
system settings
http://yourngsurveysite/ngs/setup