FTP Publishing Visual Studio 2013

Question

I'm going to host my ASP.NET MVC website in GoDaddy. It says that I have to publish it first before I can host it. I'm following this link ( http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/how-to-host-your-Asp-Net-mvc-website-on-godaddy-server/ ) for hosting my website. But when I check the content of my File Manager in my GoDaddy account, some folders of my project is not there (like the App_Data, App_Start, Models) Why is that? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

I checked the guide you used to publish your website. On step 16 it said to check "Exclude files from App_Data folder". If you check this App_Data folder does not get published. If you want to publish files in app-data folder then uncheck it while publishing.

Secondly, when a website is published, a .dll file is created for each project, so all your classes in app_start and models folder are already included in that .dll. You can find the .dll file in bin folder by the name of your project.