running asp.net mvc on iis6, do I need to install anything on the server?

Question

running asp.net mvc on iis6, do I need to install anything on the server? or can I just drop the .dll's in the /bin (system.web.mvc/routing/etc)

Answer 1

Should just be able to drop the dlls into the bin. but you do have to do some work within your global.asax file with regards to the rounting to make it work under IIS6.

Answer 2

Have a look at this walkthrough and this

Answer 3

Here's some resources for running MVC on IIS6:

Have to have .NET 3.5 to use ASP.NET MVC (without hacking): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1690864/install-mvc-on-2-0-net-server-with-iis6-without-admin-rights

And http://www.developingfor.net/aspnet-mvc/deploying-aspnet-mvc-on-iis6.html

Setup the Routing to work with IIS6: http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/26/asp.net-mvc-on-iis-6-walkthrough.aspx

And

http://blog.codeville.net/2008/07/04/options-for-deploying-aspnet-mvc-to-iis-6/

Running it on .Net 2.0 Framework:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DeployingASPNETMVCOnASPNET20.aspx

Answer 4

Also, I had to wrap all links in Url.Content like below.

<%= Url.Content("~/Scripts/util.js") %>

For IIS 6 to properly parse the paths