Running MVC application on IIS without domain - asp.net-mvc

My application contains lots of links to the root ("/login/dologin"). When I'm running the application under a domain, there's no problem.
Right now I'm moving to a new server, and I can't test my application. My application sits in "localhost/md", I need the link to go to "localhost/md/login/dologin". Instead, it goes to "localhost/login/dologin", and, ofcourse, the resource cannot be found.
What do I need to configure on my IIS to make this works without domain?
Thanks.

It's just a guess, since you haven't posted any of your configuration.
In your authentication element in the web.config, do you have the route to the login page specified as /login/dologin? could you try ~/login/dologin
The second option, should give you a relative path from the home of the virtual directory application, rather than going to the root of the 'site'
For referencing files (e.g. javascript & css) you could do #Url.Content("~/path/to/file.js")
EDIT: Based on additional comments
in Layout.cshtml...
var SITE_ROOT = '#Url.Content("~/")'
then in your JS file use SITE_ROOT as a prefix in your routes
var url = SITE_ROOT + "Home/Index";

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IIS Sub-application root

I have an existing Web Application hosted in IIS which an ASP.NET MVC application. Now I want to add a sub application,But when I deploy, some relative paths like "~/" or "/" will be imported back to my parent application.
Example:
The URL of the parent application is https://www.example.com/
Then my sub application is https://www.example.com/subApp/
When I try to click on the "subApp/test" page, it should be directed to https://www.example.com/subApp/test, but he still leads back to https://www.example.com/test.
How can I solve it?
Can it be modified through Web.Config instead of going to each page one by one
check your URL rewriting module. if it is there?

How change default url (remove subdirectory) for MVC application

Just deployed ASP.NET MVC5 web application to IIS 10. To do this, under "default website", I created a new application ("Add application"). I had to put in an alias so I put in "xyz".
So, now the public url is similar to http://xyz.mysite.com/xyz .... but I want it to be only http://xyz.mysite.com (remove 'xyz' subdirectory).
How can I do this?
The problem is that my ajax calls are failing because of the subdirectory.
You can do either of the following:
Option 1:
Add Website in your IIS (instead of Add Application) and use the SNI feature. All relative path will be from root (/) level.
or
Option 2:
Modify your AJAX calls to use #Url.Action("actionName", "controllerName") so your URLs will be generated properly based on relative path. I suspect you are hardcoding actionNames to "/controllerName/actionName" which uses root as your relative path.

URL Routes In IIS7 MVC 5 (Single Paged Application)

After publishing a MVC5 web application of mine to my IIS server (Individual User Accounts), it would seem that the URL is accessed incorrectly.
During debug, it would be e.g http://localhost:1234/api/Account/UserInfo?=XXXXX
The debug works just fine. The only issue kicks in after I've published it via my IIS7 server.
After publishing and using Google Chrome's console, it would appear that the page is requesting for a resource at mydomainname.com/api/Account/UserInfo?=XXXX instead of mydomainname.com/WEBAPPLICATIONNAME/api/Account/UserInfo?=XXXX.
My best guess is to modify the URLs in /Scripts/app/app.datamodel.js but it would just cause more parsing problems.
I've searched around and can't seem to find any related problems. I hope someone here will be able to lend a hand.
Look like you are using relative path like "/api/Account/UserInfo". Instead i'll recommend you to use #Url.Content("/api/Account/UserInfo"). This will solve your problem
Explanation
In local system when we run application in WebDev server it never have sub folder (like WEBAPPLICATIONNAME) therefore you relative path work correctly. but when you host your application in IIS under Default website in another new website /Virtual folder (like 'WEBAPPLICATIONNAME') then "/api/Account/UserInfo" fall back to Default Website because for '/' in starting. #Url.Content or #Url.Action make sure to add virtual directory name, hence changing your path to "/WEBAPPLICATIONNAME/api/Account/UserInfo" in IIS.

ASP.NET MVC server path is different from application path

I have an unusual circumstance where our web server inserts a folder into the url path before loading the page. Let me give you an example:
The app is called equipment and if I were to run it on a normal server setup, it would look like:
www.site.com\equipment\home\index
BUT when I run it on our server, it inserts "idn" in the url:
www.site.com\idn\equipment\home\index
The messes up my relative references. The MVC functions want to redirect to use "\equipment\" instead of "\idn\equipment\". This happens with Scripts.Render(), Return View(), etc.
Also, I can't hardcode the "idn" into my urls b/c then it is no longer relative and it won't work on my dev box or test servers b/c they don't have a "idn" subfolder in localhost.
I also tried functions such as Request.ApplicationPath and what not but none of them return the "idn" in the result.
Is there way to MVC to know that this "idn" was inserted into the url and account for it?
Thanks!
Create your application on the test/production server in the idn folder, then it all works.

ASP.NET MVC and IIS 5

What is the best way to get hosting of an ASP.NET MVC application to work on IIS 5 (6 or 7). When I tried to publish my ASP.NET MVC application, all I seemed to get is 404 errors. I've done a bit of googleing and have found a couple of solutions, but neither seem super elegant, and I worry if they will be unusable once I come to use a shared hosting environment for the application.
Solution 1
Right-click your application virtual directory on inetmgr.exe.
Properties->Virtual Directory Tab-> Configuration.
Add a new mapping extension. The extension should be .*, which will be
mapped to the Executable
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll,
or the appropriate location on your
computer (you can simply copy this
from the mapping for .aspx files). On
the mapping uncheck "check that file
exists".
3 X OK and you're good to go.
If you want, you can apply this setting to all your web sites. In
step1, click on the "Default Web Site"
node instead of your own virtual
directory, and in step 2 go to the
"Home Directory" tab. The rest is the
same.
It seems a tad hacky to route everything through ASP.NET.
Solutions 2
Edit the MVC routing to contain .mvc in the URL and then follow the steps in solution 1 based around this extension. Edit: The original image link was lost, but here it is from Google's Cache:
Answer is here
If *.mvc extension is not registered
to the hosting , it will give 404
exception. The working way of hosting
MVC apps in that case is to modify
global.asax routing caluse in the
following way.
routes.Add(new
Route("{controller}.mvc.aspx/{action}",
new MvcRouteHandler()) {
Defaults = new RouteValueDictionary (new{ controller
= "YourController"} ) });
In this way all your controller
request will end up in *.mvc.aspx,
which is recognized by your hosting.
And as the MVC dlls are copied into
your local bin , no special setttings
need to be done for it.
I think either way you'll have to do Solution 1.
Consider the HTTP Request pipeline.
A request comes into IIS.
IIS checks port/host header to see if it has a web site set up to capture requests for that host header/port.
IIS investigates the file extension of the request (.php, .asp, .aspx) and hands it off to an ISAPI that can handle that type of request.
Only at this point does ASP.NET (or a PHP runtime) kick in. If IIS does't have that mapping then it'll never hand off the request to the ASP.NET runtime and the request will never reach your code. That's why you need that glob (*) mapping to the ASP.NET ISAPI.
ASP.NET MVC framework urls often end with no file extension at all. If you want these requests to get handled by ASP.NET (or some other runtime) you have to map all requests regardless of the file extension to that ISAPI (ie. aspnet_isapi.dll).
This is often also done for HttpHandlers that need to serve off media like .jpg, .gif. For the handler to be hit it needs to get mapped to your code even though .jpg isn't a "normal" ASP.NET file extension.
HTH,
Tyler
Run:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_isapi.dll -i
This will reset IIS registry settings for aspnet user.
Create the virtual directory:
1. Right click on the directory you want to convert
select Properties
under Directory, select Create.
under Configuration, select Add.
for Executable insert:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_isapi.dll
for Extension insert: .*
uncheck “Check that file exists”
under Documents add entry point file, ie: Default.htm, index.htm, Global.asax
under Directory Settings
select Edit...
select Anonymous access
uncheck Allow IIS to control password
uncheck Basic authentication
uncheck Integrated Windows authentication
under ASP.NET, make sure version = v4.0.30319
TAKE NOTE of User Name ie: IUSR_AVSJ82S
Set sharing permission of physical directory:
In windows explorer, go to the physical directory that was converted to a virtual directory.
Right click the directory name
select properties
under security tab, select Add
enter the IIS User name ie: IUSR_AVSJ82S click check name.
click OK
set permissions to Read and Write.
FYI:On server 2003 (developing an app that had to connect to the RPS), it didnt' allow me to add the extension .*, I used the alternate solution modifying the route clause, and that
worked.
Have you tried adding .aspx to the end of the controller name?
It worked for Stack Overflow question Where can I get ASP.NET MVC hosting?.

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