403 - Forbidden on basic MVC 3 deploy on iis7.5 [duplicate]

Answer 1

Thanks Micheal for the help.

My OS is 64bit, so I ran aspnet_regiis.exe in Framework64 which solved the problem.

c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319>

This was after running aspnet_regiis in folder ...\Framework\v4.0.30319 which did not resolve the problem.

Answer 2

Two things to try:

1. Give permission to the directory in which your website is stored to "Network Services". That's the account that is used for ApplicationPoolIdentity in Server 2008.
2. If that fails, change ApplicationPoolIdentity to an account for which you have given explicit permissions to your website directory.

Answer 3

Run aspnet_regiis -i. Often I've found you need to do that to get 4.0 apps to work. Open a command prompt:

cd \
cd Windows\Microsoft .NET\Framework\v4.xxx.xxx
aspnet_regiis -i

Once it has installed and registered, make sure you application is using an application pool that is set to .NET 4.0.