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Petrus Theron
Petrus Theron

Reputation: 28807

Why is my MVC app throwing a blank page?

Deploying my ASP.NET MVC 2 application to an IIS7 staging server leads to a blank page, regardless of the action called. Attempts to access controller actions that require authentication are correctly redirected to /Account/LogOn, but this page too shows only a blank page on both my local machine and the remote server.

I have checked my site permissions and I think it is an assembly issue, but no errors show up in the Application log.

How do I determine the cause of the error?

I recently installed ASP.NET MVC 3 on my dev machine, but made no changes to this project and I am using StructureMap for DI, if that makes a difference.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3388

Answers (2)

matsmats
matsmats

Reputation: 512

If you have an Application_Error handler in the Global.asax, maybe that hides the error.

When I got this problem, there was an error in the web.config

Upvotes: 0

Dan Atkinson
Dan Atkinson

Reputation: 11679

You could try installing Elmah from Nuget.

In the Package Manager Console, type install-package elmah. Then run your app.

Also, if you're not actually getting any errors, have you checked the rendered source in your browser? Your master page could have something commented out in it. Probably not though!

Another suggestion would be to empty the bin directory completely after doing a Clean Solution, rebuild, and try again.

In cases like this, it generally helps breaking the problem down to the smallest steps needed to replicate the problem. In your case, remove all routes, barring the one/s you need, empty out your master page and view to just a very simple 'hello world' and also comment out any code in your action so that it's not going off to the database or whatever else.

Upvotes: 1

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