The view 'Index' or its master was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations. After deploy MVC5/MVC4 on IIS 8.5

Question

I created MVC 5 application from template 2013 VS. If I run it from VS it works.

I used publish and file deploy to my folder and on IIS I setup new pool: v4, integrated.

than I created new site using this pool

I restart IIS but if I run app I get error which is saying that it can't find my Views.

My folder contains views

My feautures is set like this:

I have problem with MVC 4 also but I get page like this.

In my RouteConfig.cs is this coud:

namespace MVC5
{
    public class RouteConfig
    {
        public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

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

Maybe my feutures are not set good for IIS feautures but I'm lost with this. Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

I believe the correct answer should be to give the user IIS_IUSRS full permission into your web folder, mvc5 in your case

IIS_IUSRS is the group for IIS Worker Process Accounts

See this answer for more info

and then sure that the application is using an application pool using the apppoolidentity

Answer 2

Finaly I found where was my problem.

Path to my deployed folder was: "C:\\Users\\Anton\\Downloads\\MVC5d"

But probably IIS is not happy with path located in folder "Users" .

I moved it into "C:\\MyProjects\\MVC5d" and everything is working now.

Answer 3

Your steps looks good - I don't see any problem. Try it on different pc or reinstall win.