IIS 7.5中的Web API路由

Question

I am attempting to publish our web api to IIS 7.5. I have it deployed as an application "api". I am able to successfully deploy the application and it runs. I can access it at /api/api/ . I believe this was due to having "api" in the routing config of the api controllers as well as having it hosted in the "api" application in IIS. I have removed the "api" portion of the route path in web api and it works correctly if I launch it from visual studio. I would like to access it from /api instead of /api/api but IIS doesn't recognize this change . What could be causing this in IIS? I am fairly new to IIS and I have googled around but I have not found anything useful.

TL;DR I updated routes in my web api application but IIS is not recognizing those changes.How can I force IIS to update?

Answer 1

After playing with this for some time I found that the problem was that I pointing the physical directory of IIS to the deployment package from VS and because I was building the project directly on the machine. This caused VS to quietly fail when it couldn't update the files because they were locked by IIS. After deploying to a new path and then replacing the contents of the application the new routing works as expected.