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Amethi
Amethi

Reputation: 1166

Can MVC run on 3.5 IIS6? NON SP1

I was lead to believe that MVC apps were BIN-deployable, so could be deployed to any ASP.net 3.5 compatible server. I'm trying to deploy to a Windows Server 2003 x64 with 3.5 (no SP1) and am having trouble getting it working.

I get the following when hitting the homepage, which redirects to the /Account/LogOn view due to our app config.

The page cannot be found

I've got the three (plus Extensions, I can't remember why) MVC dll's set to Copy Local, so they end up in the bin-folder. I'm publishing and then copying over the app to the server:

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? The app works on another machine we have with 3.5 SP1, and on development machines, also SP1 and with MVC installed.

I've gone over everything I can think of, ensured the permissions are correct, etc.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 794

Answers (4)

Rich Miller
Rich Miller

Reputation: 810

Have you set up wildcard mapping on the server that does not work? See "Deploying ASP.NET MVC to IIS 6" for an example. You basically need to map all requests to the ASP.NET ISAPI DLL and tell IIS not to try to verify that the file exists. Don't know if that's your issue, but it has bitten me a few times in deployments.

Upvotes: 2

tbreffni
tbreffni

Reputation: 5130

Check to make sure the app pool your site is running under is configured to run ASP .Net 2.0, sometimes it defaults to 1.1 which causes issues similar to yours.

Upvotes: 0

Matthew Groves
Matthew Groves

Reputation: 26096

With IIS6, you can't do extensionless URLs like /Account/LogOn. You have to do something like /Account.aspx/LogOn The ".aspx" can really be almost any arbitrary extension, but you need that extension. Your routes need to take the extension into account as well.

Upvotes: 0

Jakob Christensen
Jakob Christensen

Reputation: 14956

IIS 6 does not handle .mvc extensions correctly. Among other things you have to map .mvc to the ASP.NET handler. Here is a walkthrough for you: http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/26/asp.net-mvc-on-iis-6-walkthrough.aspx

Upvotes: 5

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