$.post doesn't work on locally deployed site

Question

I recently "converted" an HTML website to web forms. By convert, I mean I opened the website in Visual Studio 2010, added a web.config file to allow HttpPost protocol, and called it converted. However, my form doesn't want to post to my .aspx page. What am I missing? When I build the app, there is no binary created to deploy to my local IIS (7.5 on Windows 7)

<form name="register2" method="post" action="#" onsubmit="return false;">

Then my $.post is in my $(function() {...

$('form[name="register2"]').submit(function () {
    var $registerForm2 = $('form[name="register2"]');
    if ($registerForm2.valid()) {
        $.post({
            type: 'POST',
            url: 'CreateAccount.aspx',
            data: $(this).serialize()
        });
    } else { //do validation
        $registerForm2.validate();
    }
});

When I submit the form, Chrome tells me the request URL is URL:http://localhost/mysite/[object%20Object] and receives error code 404. The page CreateAccount.aspx does exist.

Answer 1

I see the problem now. the $.post() method doesn't support taking an options object as a parameter.

from the documentation :

$.post('ajax/test.html', function(data) {
  $('.result').html(data);
});

so change your code to be:

 $.post( 'CreateAccount.aspx', $(this).serialize() );

and give that a try.

Answer 2

You will need to change the extension of your pages to .aspx so the ASP.NET runtime will process it. You will also need the <%@ Page %> directive at the top of the page to indicate the page should be compiled.

Also, you will need to add runat="server" to your FORM tag.

Try adding a new WebForm page to the project to see how it gets set up by default, and verify that that works.