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How can I use my local iis and mvc to work together?

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I don't believe this will work off the bat for IIS 5.1. By default, MVC controllers/pages don't have extensions, and so IIS doesn't know who to forward the request to during the request pipeline.

In IIS 6.0, you can set a IIS wildcard mapping forward all unknown files to the ASP.NET engine. For 5.1, you'll probably have to configure MapRoutes so that your urls include the mvc extension:

http://localhost/myproject/home.mvc

David Andres 2009-09-06 14:09:36

Thanks - I changed the routing in mvc to look for that - how do I do configure IIS?

Davy 2009-09-06 14:21:39

Within the Virtual Directory tab of the properties for the site, click on the Configuration button.In Application Mappings, click the Add button. Locate the aspnet_isapi.dll in \Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.0.50727. Just make sure All Verbs is selected but that Check that file exists is not.

David Andres 2009-09-06 14:24:59

Davy, have you had any success with this approach?

David Andres 2009-09-06 14:43:02

I can get the app to load but as soon as i click on another action it just reloads that page and drops all styling.

Davy 2009-09-06 16:24:12

Check the links on the page, and ensure that they're going where you expect them to (e.g, they have the mvc extension). Are you using Html.Action?

David Andres 2009-09-06 16:41:49

Sorry should add - http://localhost/myProject/ is fine.if I change my route code to:routes.MapRoute( "Default", "default.aspx/{controller}.mvc/{action}/{id}", new { action = "Index", id = "" } );This is based on what I read here: http://www.asp.net/LEARN/mvc/tutorial-08-cs.aspxNow - http://localhost/FirstMVC/default.aspx/Order.mvc returnsthe output from http://localhost/myProject but with no styling.

Davy 2009-09-06 16:52:32

Should your URL be localhost/myProject/Order.mvc instead of localhost/FirstMVC/default.aspx/Order.mvc?

David Andres 2009-09-06 17:28:10

sorry typo - It's working now. I'm not sure exactly what I had done wrong but the advice here was sound - thanks.Now I have - http://localhost/myProject/Home.mvc/About etc working with route code.routes.MapRoute( "Default", "{controller}.mvc/{action}/{id}", new { action = "Index", id = "" } );So in conclusion - Add .mv mapping extention and change routing as above.Thanks again.Davy

Davy 2009-09-06 17:41:22

Ok, going forward: IIS 5.1 needs some extension to help the service route requestsIIS 6.0 needs either an extension or wildcard mappingIIS 7.0 handles MVC requests out-of-the-boxGlad to hear all of this helped.

David Andres 2009-09-06 17:43:12

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It can work. Solution is not elegant but it does exist. Take a look at my article IIS vs. ASP.NET URL Rewriting

Alex Ilyin 2009-11-23 17:38:10

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