This morning I moved a .NET website from our local server to live (not pre-complied). When I go to the url the sites hosted on the browser starts loading the site and has been doing this for the last hour. I presumed it is compiling the site and its just taking a while because of the size of the site.
Is there any way to check if this is definitely the case and there's nothing else happening?
Put your images in a spearate folder, not in your virtual directory for the application.
@ ck. You obviously haven't used Umbraco before because Umbraco cannot be hosted in a virtual directory.
Umbraco bin zip comes with the site precompiled. I am assuming the reason your site is compiling is because you have ascx usercontrols with ascx.cs files. Maybe some App_Code .cs files.
Put those in another Web Application project. Compile it, and just move the .dll and .ascx files over to the appropriate directories.