Publishing an MVC4 App on IIS 7.5 but Having Permission Issues

Question

I published an intranet on IIS 7.5. If I try to go to the website, I get "403 - Forbidden: Access is denied - You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied".

If I right click on the application folder on IIS Manager and go to Manage Application and then Browse, I get "HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden - The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory". It then proceeds to tell me that A default document is not configured etc. etc. I do have a default document listed in the web.config file as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
    <directoryBrowse enabled="false" />
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
    <defaultDocument>
        <files>
            <add value="Index.cshtml" />
        </files>
    </defaultDocument>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

What am I doing wrong? Many thanks.

Answer 1

check the folders permissions: right click on the folder, click on properties go to Security and add the appropriate user (like IUSR_...). hope it helps.

Answer 2

It turned out I was publishing the app completely the wrong way. I was going by how previous ASP.Net apps created as Websites and not Solutions were published. This MVC app needed to be placed in inetpub/wwwroot folder in the server. If I published through Visual Studio I think this would have happened anyway. I didn't have VS in the server. So I placed the files manually there (just copied from my local inetpub/wwwroot since I successfully published there earlier). The last thing I needed to do was go to IIS Manager and converting the project folder into an Application. Now cooking on gas.