How to get IIS to recognize OWIN startup class?

Question

My OWIN web service runs beautifully in Visual Studio 2013, but when I publish it to a real IIS site, it acts as if the Configuration method in the startup class has not bee

Answer 1

I also faced same problems when I migrated my already running MVC5 site to a new server. It gave me nightmares, just to recap I had to do all this to get it working

1. Add [assembly: OwinStartupAttribute(typeof([YourAssemblyName].Startup))] this to the Startup class (after the using statements and before the namespace declaration)

2. Add these keys to the section of web.config

3. And lastly as suggested by Martijn Evens add the following to section in web.config