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

My actual problem was that I had mucked around with the _ViewStart.cshtml and _Layout.cshtml files. Specifically, I had changed the name of the _Layout.cshtml file to _PageLayout.cshtml and amended the references to it in _ViewStart.cshtml.

That worked on VS2010 and on my home machine running Windows 7 32-bit, but it did not work on either my work machine running Windows 7 64-bit or my development server running Windows Server 2008 R2.

The solution for me was to now try to change the name of _Layout.cshtml file.