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Phone Developer
Phone Developer

Reputation: 1461

ASP.NET MVC 3 - 404 When starting application

I've inherited an ASP.NET MVC 3 application. I know NOTHING about MVC 3. I've been using ASP.NET Web Forms though for 5+ years. When I attempt to launch the application from Visual Studio, I receive a 404. The browser points to http://localhost/Account/Logon. I've noticed that in my project, there is:

I am assuming this is what should be launched.I've set a breakpoint in the Global.asax.cs and found that I am being redirected to this page via the following event:

void WSFederationAuthenticationModule_AuthorizationFailed(object sender, AuthorizationFailedEventArgs e)
{
  e.RedirectToIdentityProvider = false;
  HttpContext.Response.Redirect("/Account/Logon");
}

When I launch the application, I get a 404. I'm completely lost in regards to how to resolve this. I also don't know how to "Set as Start Page" in the MVC world. Can somebody please help me get over this hurdle? I just want to run the application. Thank you so VERY VERY much!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1908

Answers (2)

dknaack
dknaack

Reputation: 60468

If you call

http://localhost/Account/Logon

MVC, if you changed no routes in global.asax, is looking for

  • a Controller Named "Account"

  • the method "LogOn" in this Controller.

If you ActionMethod "Account.LogOn" returns a View, MVC looks into the Views/Account/ Directory and try to find you LogOn View.

Lots of more informations:

Asp.NET MVC

Phil Haack´s Blog

Scott Guthrie´s Blog

Hope this helps

Upvotes: 2

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1038720

I am assuming this is what should be launched

No, your assumption is wrong. In ASP.NET MVC you never access view directly. You always pass through a controller action which performs some processing on the model and returns a view.

So when you request /Account/Logon (assuming default routing) it is the Logon action on the AccountController that should be executed:

public class AccountController: Controller
{
    public ActionResult Logon()
    {
        ...
    }
}

If such action or controller doesn't exist in the project you would get 404.

Before proceeding any further with the inherited project I would very strongly recommend you familiarizing yourself with the basics of ASP.NET MVC by following some of the tutorials here: http://asp.net/mvc

Upvotes: 1

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