ASP.NET MVC3 In IIS 7.5

Question

Hi I want to publish an MVC 3 site in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. I installed MVC 3 and MVC 2. When I created an MVC 2 site, it worked fine but the MVC 3 site did not work.

Answer 1

The short answer is that you need to "Bin Deploy" the ASP.NET MVC 3 app.

Please read Bin Deploying ASP.NET MVC 3 with Razor to a Windows Server without MVC. Please also read Bin deploy for MVC 3 with Visual Studio 2010 SP1.

I was able to (partially) solve this problem by installing Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and then utilizing the Add Dependency Assemblies command.

The reason I said that I was able to partially solve this problem is because this solution worked for my local IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 but has not worked for IIS 7 on a Windows Server 2008 R2. I am not sure if the problem is continuing or whether it is not a permissions issue. I have not had the chance to look at it in depth yet. Failed Request Tracing seems to suggest that it is the same issue as before, i.e., 403.14. I will update my answer when I know more.