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Travis J
Travis J

Reputation: 82297

Can I host two MVC3 applications next to each other?

Can I have an MVC3 application in ~/priv/, and another in ~/pub?

It seems that if I first put an application in ~/priv/ then when I go to "XXX.XXXXX.com/" it serves the application in ~/priv. Can I solve this with routes? Is there something I am missing? Please help!

Edit: To be clear, is there a way that the structure can look like:

[root]
  [priv]
  [pub]

so that if someone goes to root neither one is seen, if someone goes to root/priv they the priv app and if someone goes to root/pub they get the pub app.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 667

Answers (4)

Ethan Cabiac
Ethan Cabiac

Reputation: 4993

You need to make sure of several things:

  • The virtual directories [pub] and [priv] must each be configured as an Application in IIS.
  • If [root] is configured as an application, any applications in sub folders will inherit the values from web.config, even if they run under a different app pools. Make sure this is not causing a conflict or unexpected behavior.

  • Check for the setting runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests=true. If [root] is configured as an Application, it may be intercepting the call fro IIS before it gets to a child application. You may want to add the following to the web.config of [root] (but make sure to override this in [pub] and [priv]:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="false">
            <remove name="UrlRoutingModule-4.0" />
        </modules>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

  • Then, in web.config for [pub] and [priv] you can add:

    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">
    <add name="UrlRoutingModule-4.0" type="System.Web.Routing.UrlRoutingModule" />
</modules>

Upvotes: 2

Be.St.
Be.St.

Reputation: 4181

If you can you merge the public and private apps in one web application you can take advantage of Areas in Asp.net MVC.

In this way you can have Areas or Module to divide the application in smaller grouping (in your case a priv area and a pub area) In fact an Area is a complete MVC structure in you application.

Grouping Controllers with ASP.NET MVC

App Areas in ASP.NET MVC, take 2

Walkthrough: Organizing an ASP.NET MVC Application using Areas

Upvotes: 0

StanK
StanK

Reputation: 4770

You can create multiple applications under one site, and have them use different aliases.

Create a new website in IIS Manager. Right click on that website, and choose 'Add Application...' giving the alias 'priv', and repeat that process for your other 'pub' site.

Then you can hit the predict site via XXX.XXXXX.com/priv/mycontoller/myaction and the other via XXX.XXXXX.com/pub/mycontoller/myaction.

I'd imagine that you'd need to create a new site for this in IIS, rather than just adding an application to an existing ASP.Net MVC site - as I imagine that that would confuse the routing.

Upvotes: 3

ron tornambe
ron tornambe

Reputation: 10780

You can create sub-domains for each application.

Upvotes: 2

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