Can't Get Glimpse To Work On Remote IIS

Question

I've tried everything I can think of, so I'm turning to SO. I can't get Glimpse to work on a remote IIS server. I'm using Glimpse 1.2 with ADO, ASP.NET, EF5, and Mvc4 extensions. Everything works wonderfully when I launch the web application locally using the VS development server. However, I can't seem to get the Glimpse icon to show up when deploying to our remote development server. Here's what I've tried and noticed:

• I am ignoring the LocalPolicy in my web.config:

  <glimpse defaultRuntimePolicy="On" endpointBaseUri="~/Glimpse.axd">
      <inspectors>
          <ignoredTypes>
              <add type="Glimpse.Mvc.Inspector.DependencyInjectionInspector, Glimpse.Mvc4" />
              <add type="Glimpse.AspNet.Policy.LocalPolicy, Glimpse.AspNet"/>
          </ignoredTypes>
      </inspectors>
  </glimpse>
  

• I am able to access /Glimpse.axd and press the enable button without issue

• A cookie gets set with the content:

  glimpsePolicy
  On
  backofficetest/
  1088
  2027053056
  32990064
  3189135193
  30291671
  *
  

• Turning on the Glimpse log does not show any error or warning messages. It generates the following for each request:

2013-04-11 12:43:06.8992 | DEBUG | RuntimePolicy set to 'Off' by IRuntimePolicy of type 'Glimpse.AspNet.Policy.LocalPolicy' during RuntimeEvent 'BeginRequest'.

• Fiddler verifies that no calls are being made to any Glimpse-related resources during a request.

• Nothing related to Glimpse appears in the page source.

I'm sure I've just missed a setting somewhere, but this is driving me nuts. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You configuration needs to be updated, like so:

<glimpse defaultRuntimePolicy="On" endpointBaseUri="~/Glimpse.axd">
  <inspectors> 
    <ignoredTypes> 
      <add type="Glimpse.Mvc.Inspector.DependencyInjectionInspector, Glimpse.Mvc4" /> 
    </ignoredTypes> 
  </inspectors>
  <runtimePolicies>
    <ignoredTypes>
        <add type="Glimpse.AspNet.Policy.LocalPolicy, Glimpse.AspNet"/>
    </ignoredTypes>
  </runtimePolicies>
</glimpse>

Runtime policies and inspectors are two different things and are configured in their own nodes.

Answer 2

Even I had a similar problem. It worked on my local machine, but when hosted on IIS it didnt work. I used nikmd23 code and it worked, later realized that only the <runtimePolicies> was required.

Here is what works for me :

<glimpse defaultRuntimePolicy="On" endpointBaseUri="~/Glimpse.axd">      
  <runtimePolicies>
    <ignoredTypes>
        <add type="Glimpse.AspNet.Policy.LocalPolicy, Glimpse.AspNet"/>
    </ignoredTypes>
  </runtimePolicies>
</glimpse>