Any idea on how to get my asp.net mvc website to work on a webhost that's running asp.net 3.5 but maybe not IIS 7? (I think they might be on IIS 6)
I am on Crystal Tech and my home page shows up just fine but all other requests give me a 404 page not found error.
Note: I already follow these instructions but it's still not working
http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/03/bin-deploy-aspnetmvc.aspx
Have you tried this?
http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/26/asp.net-mvc-on-iis-6-walkthrough.aspx
I had the same problem - I tried to fix it, but decided that spending the time screwing around with running on a backlevel server wasn't worth it. In the end it was just easier for me to move to a host that ran Windows Server 2008 and IIS7.
If you do have IIS7, then you may have an option to switch IIS7 between integrated and pipeline mode. Try switching to the other mode in your control panel. That's what worked for me.
I fixed it by adding an .aspx at the end of all my routes in the route table("/{Controller}/{Action}/{id}.aspx").
You can add any extension that asp.net handles(like .mspx, .ashx, ...)
The only way to fix it without adding any extension is to ask your host to do so, or change your host to another with IIS7
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I have reading posts all night looking for an answer to my issue and haven't found anything that works for me yet. I am sure there is a simple way to do this but I haven't been able to discover it yet.
Details:
MVC 2 Preview
Asp.net 3.5 sp1 framework
VS 2008 C# web application
Windows Server 2008
IIS 7
I have the application running well through VS 2008 no problem. When I hit the play to run in debug mode it starts the ASP.NET Development Server the application loads fine and works as expected, great!
When I publish the application locally or to my web server both on IIS 7 the application doesn't run correctly. Some of the icons are missing and the google maps map is missing. When I view the source it appears correct at first glance, but I can see the paths to the images are looking for the MVC paths and it isn't finding them. It appears the app is running as a regular asp.net app and not an mvc app, maybe?
I also tried to just hit the full source code locally on localhost and the exact same issue is present.
So, I guess my question is how do I deploy a MVC application to run the same in IIS as it does through the development server.
PS The environments are clean and pretty much out of the box.
#user68137 is correct in saying that you need to use relative paths for the images.
I got caught out on this one too, and here's my previous SO question about it...
In short, you need to do something like this...
<img src='<%= Url.Content( "~/Content/Images/banner.jpg" ) %>' alt="Banner" />
Hope this helps!
I had the relative paths set, but what I didn't realize is when I deployed it to the server it went to wwwroot\subsite... I had the relative paths set to src="....\image.jpg" to get back to the root of the site. My error was that if the site is not in the root then the subsite drills back to the root to find the images and of course doesn't find them. Same thing was happening with the JS files. I used the Url.Content and it worked great! problem solved!
The interesting this is when running through the VS dev server with a subsite it still worked well and found the paths even though it shouldn't have. VS dev server <> IIS
Thanks for your help on this!
Simon.
Once you know the virtual path to the location you are deploying the project to, you should go into the project configuration in Visual Studio and add it to your project. This way the visual studio development server will use the same path structure as the deployment server. This will save you countless hours of work when deploying.
When you run your website through Visual Studio, every single request gets processed through the ASP.NET pipeline, including images, CSS and other resources. IIS by default only processes specific extensions (e.g., aspx) unless you tell it otherwise through configuration. Paths like '/content/images/yourimage.jpg' should work just fine...I suspect it's something amiss in your IIS configuration.
Another possibility which I've run into is any custom ISAPI filters you may have installed on the IIS server (e.g., ISAPI_rewrite). It's easy to set up rules in its configuration that lead to some very unexpected results.
I don't know anyone can help but I'd appreciate any. I am developing an app in mvc (c#), now I had various routes working on my local development machine when the app was stand alone however now I've tried adding the project to the test intranet at work and none of the routes are working.
So where Localhost/Admin/Create worked fine locally where admin is the controller and Create is the action, when I try to get to testintranet.mywork.com/intranetsection/myproject/admin/create I'm getting a file not found error. I'm not sure what I need to change to get it to pick up the routing again rather than look for the literal path. The default.aspx page works fine and gets called but apart from that nothing. Is routing only viable when in a standalone project?
Cheers for any help.
It looks like you're either running on IIS 6 or IIS 7 classic mode. If you can, I'd recommend updgrading to IIS 7 integrated mode. If not, I have a walkthrough for getting up and running on IIS 6.
http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/26/asp.net-mvc-on-iis-6-walkthrough.aspx
You don't say what version of IIS you have deployed to, but you may be running into the issues described here:
http://blog.codeville.net/2008/07/04/options-for-deploying-aspnet-mvc-to-iis-6/
I believe that most people chose to resolve this using a wildcard mapping for the aspnet_isapi.dll.
I've been trying to figure out why my views are returning 404 in my staging environment, but not my development environment.
Windows Server 2008 R2
IIS 7.5
MVC 2 Beta definitely installed.
The first Route entry in my Global.asax is as follows:
routes.MapRoute(
"FindStore",
"FindStore",
new { controller = "FindStore", action = "Index" });
All views are definitely present and in the proper directories.
Basically if I go to http://StagingServer/FindStore I get a 404 error. Every other answer I've seen has to do with IIS 6. which I'm not running.
We had a similar problem. We checked integrated mode, permissions, and runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests. No dice. Eventually this windows hotfix fixed it.
It ended up being because my App Pool was running in Classic mode.
I am not sure if this will help but there was an issue reported on Stack Overflow that uses both technologies and involves a similar problem:
Getting an ASP.MVC2/VS2010 application to work in IIS 7.5
I would check it out and see if it helps.
I had the same problem, my App Pool was set to Classic and I had changed it to use the .NET 4.0 Framework, but it didn't start working until I recycled the App Pool.
I was lead to believe that MVC apps were BIN-deployable, so could be deployed to any ASP.net 3.5 compatible server. I'm trying to deploy to a Windows Server 2003 x64 with 3.5 (no SP1) and am having trouble getting it working.
I get the following when hitting the homepage, which redirects to the /Account/LogOn view due to our app config.
The page cannot be found
I've got the three (plus Extensions, I can't remember why) MVC dll's set to Copy Local, so they end up in the bin-folder. I'm publishing and then copying over the app to the server:
System.Web.Abstractions.dll
System.Web.Mvc.dll
System.Web.Routing.dll
System.Web.Extensions.dll
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? The app works on another machine we have with 3.5 SP1, and on development machines, also SP1 and with MVC installed.
I've gone over everything I can think of, ensured the permissions are correct, etc.
IIS 6 does not handle .mvc extensions correctly. Among other things you have to map .mvc to the ASP.NET handler. Here is a walkthrough for you: http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/26/asp.net-mvc-on-iis-6-walkthrough.aspx
Have you set up wildcard mapping on the server that does not work? See "Deploying ASP.NET MVC to IIS 6" for an example. You basically need to map all requests to the ASP.NET ISAPI DLL and tell IIS not to try to verify that the file exists. Don't know if that's your issue, but it has bitten me a few times in deployments.
With IIS6, you can't do extensionless URLs like /Account/LogOn. You have to do something like /Account.aspx/LogOn The ".aspx" can really be almost any arbitrary extension, but you need that extension. Your routes need to take the extension into account as well.
Check to make sure the app pool your site is running under is configured to run ASP .Net 2.0, sometimes it defaults to 1.1 which causes issues similar to yours.
I'm struggling to get around the 404 errors from asp.net mvc beta when deploying on IIS 6. I had this working in one of the previews by mapping .mvc in IIS but this no longer works. I've read Omar's post and several others on the web and tried their solutions but no luck so far.
The home page opens without a problem on IIS 6 but others 404 and the site runs well on IIS 7.
Has anybody deployed asp.net mvc beta to IIS 6 with success? If so, what adjustments did you need to make to the code and/or IIS settings to get it to work?
I found a solution to my problem from Steve Sanderson's blog (Thanks Steve):
Use a wildcard mapping for aspnet_isapi.dll. This tells IIS 6 to process all requests using ASP.NET, so routing is always invoked, and there’s no problem. It’s dead easy to set up:
open IIS manager (run -> inetmgr -> OK)
right-click your app, go to Properties
then Home Directory tab, then click Configuration.
Under Wildcard application maps, click Insert (not Add, which is
confusingly just above)
then enter
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll for
“Executable”, and uncheck Verify that file exists.
I can't seem to write comments yet. So I'll write a new answer.
There are a few similar questions going around on stackoverflow.
I'm using MVC 3. I know the question was MVC 2 related. But since this is the first stackoverflow post I bumped in to, I think it's worth mentioning that:
when you use MVC 3, you need to add a new extension mapping with the executable of the .NET 4 framework (C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_isapi.dll)
<edit>I just found out that I even don't need to set up the extension mapping. </edit>
It still didn't work for me then :) I still had to 'Allow' ASP.NET v4.0.30319 in the Web Service Extensions section in IIS:
open IIS
click on the server node
open the Web Service Extensions section
select the ASP.NET v4.0....
right click --> Allow
Good to go!
Url rewriting can help you to solve the problem. I've implemented solution allowing to deploy MVC application at any IIS version even when virtual hosting is used.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/iis-aspnet-url-rewriting.aspx