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Do Virtual Directories in shared hosting conflict with stuff in wwwroot?

Answer 1

A:

Did you put the MVC dlls in your /bin folder?

Sometimes it will work locally because the MVC bins are in the GAC, but they may not be in the GAC on the server.

ETA:

Sounds like maybe your webservice virtual is inheriting settings from the main web. You probably have something like this in your main web.config:

    <compilation debug="true">
        <assemblies>
            <add assembly="System.Core, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/>
            <add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
            <add assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
            <add assembly="System.Web.Abstractions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
            <add assembly="System.Web.Routing, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
            <add assembly="System.Data.DataSetExtensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/>
            <add assembly="System.Xml.Linq, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/>
            <add assembly="System.Data.Linq, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/>
        </assemblies>
    </compilation>

Try surrounding that (or the whole <system.web> section) with this:

<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
....
</location>

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Eric Petroelje 2010-01-11 21:49:07

Well I have in my wwwroot where my asp.net mvc application lives has the bin folder and it contains the mvc.dll and it loads up just fine. The problem is my virtual directory has my asp.net webservice what is not an asp.net mvc application so it only has my webservice.dll in the bin folder. Yet it is asking for the mvc.dll what makes no sense. If I put the webservice in the wwwroot by itself(so not mvc stuff) it works fine.

chobo2 2010-01-11 21:54:26

I just tried and I have to in my virtual directory every bin that I use even if my application does not use it. It makes no sense.

chobo2 2010-01-11 21:58:10

Hi see my edit.

chobo2 2010-01-11 22:44:01

hmm it still does not work. See my new edit.

chobo2 2010-01-11 23:06:20

hmm I think it might be working but I notice by doing this it kills the debugger in Vs2008. If I have this line in my web.config I cannot debug anymore. I take it out and I can debug.

chobo2 2010-01-13 05:16:56

@chobo2 - That's probably because the `<compilation debug="true">` is not inherited by the webservice sub-web anymore. Try putting a web.config file in that virtual directory and add make sure it has that section in it (minus the MVC dll references of course)

Eric Petroelje 2010-01-13 13:12:57

Hi the webservice has its own web.config and has that line in it. I think it still does debugging on the webserivce. I am talking about my asp.net mvc application and it's web.config(so the root web.config). When I have that line it it I lose the deubugger.

chobo2 2010-01-13 19:51:16

@chobo2 - Did you put the <location> line around the whole <system.web> section rather than just the <compilation> section? Now that I think about it, it may not be valid to put it just around the <configuration> section (but I'm not 100% sure on that)

Eric Petroelje 2010-01-13 21:14:21

Answer 2

A:

Your web.config file is looking for a MVC file, remove this line from your web.config

<add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>

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ReliableSite.Net

2010-01-12 20:10:56

Yep it needs to be there otherwise my asp.net mvc app won't work.

chobo2 2010-01-13 03:32:49

Well then place the MVC dll in the bin folder.

2010-01-13 21:08:50

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