How to deploy a ASP.NET MVC 4 website on IIS8

Question

I have an ASP.NET MVC 4 application and I want to deploy it on IIS 8. I read on the internet that it's possible to do that directly through VS 2010/2013 by creating a package and publish it but I want to deploy it with IIS manager. I tried to do it manually by doing these steps :

1. Right-Click on Sites (left panel in IIS Manager) > Add a web site.
2. Specifying the physical path of my project (I've put it on C:), giving a port number (here 3500) and giving a url name (for instance, www.abc.net (or .com)).
3. Clicking on OK and my web site appears in the left panel.

When I launch my website through Chrome, the browser says that he can't access http://www.abc.net:3500

What am I doing wrong here? What should I do to deploy my MVC website without Visual Studio ?

EDIT : By following Imran's first link, it seems that I made a step ahead. However, instead of access the Index page of my app, that's what the browser displays :

My project folder's list

Should I configure something in my RouteConfig? Here it is :

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Routing;

namespace AstellasSchedulerV2 {
    public class RouteConfig {
        public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes) {
            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.ashx/{*pathInfo}");

            routes.MapRoute(
                name: "Default", // Route name
                url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
                defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
            );
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

You can create a deployment package using Visual Studio by going to Build > Publish {project name} and follow the wizard.

In IIS click on a site and there should be an option for Import Application under the Deploy menu. If you don't see this then you need to install the WebDeploy module into IIS .

Alternatively, if you're still developing your solution you can configure Visual Studio to use your IIS installation by going to the project's Properties > Web and choose Use Local IIS Web server . When you run your application it will copy the build over to your default website automatically and run it from there.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

No idea what you do wrong. Check the logs. Set up a web.config that shows the error when you access the site locally and / or remotely for debugging purposes. Your question is like "I have a car. It does not work. What is wrong?".

Once you enable remote debugging in teh web.config you should see a proper error message.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb684665.aspx

tells that the settings are:

Change the customErrors mode attribute from "RemoteOnly" to "Off", and then save the file.

and then you should see more than a "Error 500". Making sense out of that is your job then ;)

Answer 3

please refer below articles step by step

IIS 8.0 Using ASP.NET 3.5 and ASP.NET 4.5

and

ASP.NET Web Deployment using Visual Studio: Deploying to Test

EDIT

Publish your website code properly and then try below

1)Please check below configration in global.asax.

RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);

2)your route config should be

 routes.MapRoute(
                name: "Default",
                url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                defaults: new { controller = "your default controller", action = "index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
            );

3)Disabled Directory browsing in IIS 8.0