asp.net mvc 2 web application inside a Web site?

Question

I have a Asp.Net Web Site deployed as a WebSite inside IIS 7.5.

http://localhost/WebSite

Then I have a second Asp.Net MVC 2 web application which is deployed as Sub Application inside the above WebSite. So the mvc aplication should work on the following Url.

http://localhost/WebSite/MvcApp/

The web site works fine but when I browse the mvc Url http://localhost/WebSite/MvcApp/

It gives following error.

HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory.

Answer 1

Is you Asp.Net MVC site running ASP.NET 4.0? If so, make sure the app pool for that MVC site is setup asp ASP.NET 4.0 and not ASP.NET 2.0.

Answer 2

You might need to create a virtual directory for the ASP.NET MVC application which will be associated to its dedicated application pool.

Answer 3

I know I had the same problem some time ago. In my case the two applications ran a siblings, not one inside the other. The problem was the web.config in the root directory (above the two sites) conflicting with the the web.config in the seperate sites. I solved it by just deleting the root web.config (since I have nothing running in the root.

So my advice (I know it's definately not a solution) is to check for conflicts in your web.configs.