Running a .NET 4.6 MVC application on IIS 8.5 (Windows Server 2012)

Question

I have an MVC Web API 2 application that I am running quite successfully locally within Visual Studio 2015 RC. I have also successfully published this application to an IIS 8.5 instance running on Windows Server 2012. I have installed .NET Framework 4.6 on this machine also.

The behaviour that I am getting when I try to navigate to the root of the site ( http://localhost:81 ) is that I get a directory listing of the files in the root folder. Clearly I was expecting the routing config of the application to kick in an execute the home controller, but this is not happening.

I am a developer and it has been some time since I configured IIS, but I do remember that I had to do some fiddling with IIS (6?) to get the routing to work.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

Make sure your application pool is running in integrated mode and not classic.