HTTP 403 Forbidden: Access is denied ASP.NET Web API

Question

I\'m getting the following error when running our ASP.NET Web API project on our production server.

403 - Forbidden: Access is denied. You do not hav

Answer 1

In my case, someone deleted default Asp Net MVC Home/Index route in RouteConfig.

After placing this code back to the RouteConfig.cs in RegisterRoutes method the problem was gone.

    routes.MapRoute(
        name: "Default",
        url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
        defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
    );