404 Error w/ ASP.NET MVC Routing on ISP

Question

I have a simple ASP.NET MVC 1.0 site w/ Home, Upload, and About links based upon the default project template for an ASP.NET MVC Project. The Global.asax.cs has the following route.

  routes.MapRoute(
      "Default",                                              // Route name
      "{controller}/{action}/{id}",                           // URL with parameters
      new { controller = "Home", action = "About", id = "" }  // Parameter defaults
  );

On my local computer the site and links work correctly. However, when the site is deployed to my ISP (shared hosting) the default Home/About is displayed when the site loads, but clicking any of the links results in a 404 Page not found error.

I had to include: System.Web.Abstractions System.Web.Mvc System.Web.Routing

in my /bin folder as MVC 1.0 is not installed in the GAC on the ISP.

Thoughts on why this is not routing correctly?

Thanks, Chris

Answer 1

There are routing issues that you need to be aware of when deploying asp.net mvc applications. What version of IIS is your ISP using?

See here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34194/asp-net-mvc-on-iis6

Basically, if you're using IIS6, you'll need to hack around a bit.

Answer 2

I'm having the same issue. I'm running IIS 7 on .net 3.5. It is hosted on Godaddy. It worked last Thursday, 6-10-2010, but on Friday the 11th I started getting the 404 errors. Of course godaddy says they changed nothing on the servers and that they don't support 3rd party software. Nothing had changed in my code.