在运行IIS 6的Windows 2003计算机上部署ASP.NET MVC4网站时出现500错误

Question

I am having trouble when deploying the asp.net mvc on iis6 runing on windows 2003. Below is the case: I have it running on a separate app pool and it is setup to use asp.net 4.0. I have a Wildcard application mapping to aspnet_isapi.dll which was required to get the page to appear. But When I visit the site from another computer, the error happened and I just got the error code 500 inside the server's log file. I have no idea what to do. I already copy all the dlls needed to server(CopyLocal =true). When I type ipAddress/repairlist/index (repairlist is the name of my controller), I got the error. but when i type ipAddress/test.txt, it just display the content of the text. What makes me feel puzzled is that I create a template website using visual studio 2010, and i deploy it on the server, it just worked. I feel so frustrated. So, I wonder How to deal with the problem like this? How can I get the detail error information so I can make it work. The log file of the IIS just indicates the 500 0 0 error code. I already follow the basic step indicated by the google. How could the template website just work, and mine didn't?

Answer 1

Tough although it seems it is an ASP.Net error - re: IIS is serving text file fine - don't confuse this with ASP.Net application - a text ( .txt ) file can be served by IIS without Asp.net.

Process of elimination:

• Just put up an aspx file - does nothing but return "Hello World" - this is just a check to see if ASP.net is configured properly (without any other dependency)

  • If the above works, then have you tried customErrors="Off" ? This will hopefully give you enough error detail to track application errors (missing assemblies, db connections/strings, etc.)

  • Otherwise, it at least is pointing to ASP.net not configured properly (if it can't even serve a simple aspx page that only returns "hello world").

It's been a while for me (IIS 6) so maybe this will help: ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6 Walkthrough

Hth.