Run a .net project on a system with IIS but no Visual Studio

Question

I have a MVC 5 web application that is working fine. But due to internal security reasons and restrictions of my organization, I cannot host it as a website. My current requirement is to make this app run on a particular computer that has IIS installed on it but no Visual Studio .

My application makes use of MS-SQL database, Entity Framework, C# razors and all other .NET dependencies that are usual in a MVC app, and my target framework is 4.5.1 .

What I Found : I googled a lot, what I got is to create a Virtual Directory using the inetmgr and create the application under that directory. But since already the application is created I cannot go for this fix.

Please help me out by providing some links to refer to or steps to solve this.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

What you will need to do is to either:

• Use Visual Studio to publish the website directly onto the machine which is hosting the IIS application, as shown here .

• Use Visual Studio an publish the application to a folder location on your machine and then use remote desktop or some other method to move the published DLL's to the virtual directory of the application.

Essentially both of them do the same thing, but sometimes due to security reasons, option 2 is easier to accomplish.