Deploying ASP MVC 5 App with IIS 7.5

Question

I try to deploy ASP MVC 5 app in virtual directory (without creating new iis application) I use IIS 7.5

I already put

<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/> 
<directoryBrowse enabled="true" />

in web.config file. But when i go to app url with IE browser it shows me just directory listing like in screenshot below

Is there a way to deploy MVC 5 in virtual directory and make it work like usual MVC application?

Answer 1

You need to convert the virtual directory to application. Right click on it in the IIS management console and choose Convert To Application... . Also make sure that the associated application is configured to use Integrated Pipeline Mode.

Answer 2

I solved this problem earlier in my production environment by checking the directory pointer in IIS. Apparently when I unzipped the deployed site from one server to the next, the zip utility made an extra level, so IIS was pointing to /MyProject when the files were in /MyProject/MyProject. I had a little better clue though, you have Document Browsing enabled based on that screen shot, make sure not to do that in production. I set the site to log custom errors and got a 403.14 response, from there found a blog on my mistake. You need to setup the environment to find the specific module that's failing, I think something to do with trace routes, idk. I'm a software developer that always gets forced into doing devOps; was googling my own problem and thought I'd throw you a line. Without a specific error message, all I can tell you is IIS is not connecting to .NET; something is not configured correctly. Turn off directory browsing, google how to get good error logs back, and let us know the status code so we can help you: 403.14, 401, 500, 404? Also give us the module that's failing. If it's the last one on the handler list, guess what, IIS isn't connecting to the app, which I suspect is your case.