yesterday I deployed my website from c:\development\project\ to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\virtualdir\ (same pc). It worked for some time, I could reach the website by going to http://computername/virtualdir/.
But this morning everybody got an error: The system cannot find the path specified.
What is the path being specified that cannot be found? /virtualdir/bin/ contains the System.Web.Mvc.Dll assembly... Also the deployment project has marked it as a dependency so I was really included during the installation, how can it change suddenly?
Stack trace:
[DirectoryNotFoundException: The system cannot find the path specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070003)]
[FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Mvc, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the path specified.]
[FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Mvc, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the path specified.] System.Reflection.Assembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, Assembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection) +0 System.Reflection.Assembly.nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, Assembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection) +43 System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection) +127 System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(String assemblyString, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection) +142 System.Reflection.Assembly.Load(String assemblyString) +28 System.Web.Configuration.CompilationSection.LoadAssemblyHelper(String assemblyName, Boolean starDirective) +46
[ConfigurationErrorsException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Mvc, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the path specified.] System.Web.Configuration.CompilationSection.LoadAssemblyHelper(String assemblyName, Boolean starDirective) +613 System.Web.Configuration.CompilationSection.LoadAllAssembliesFromAppDomainBinDirectory() +203 System.Web.Configuration.CompilationSection.LoadAssembly(AssemblyInfo ai) +105 System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetReferencedAssemblies(CompilationSection compConfig) +178 System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetReferencedAssemblies() +55 System.Web.Mvc.BuildManagerWrapper.System.Web.Mvc.IBuildManager.GetReferencedAssemblies() +21 System.Web.Mvc.ControllerTypeCache.GetAllControllerTypes(IBuildManager buildManager) +62 System.Web.Mvc.ControllerTypeCache.EnsureInitialized(IBuildManager buildManager) +73 System.Web.Mvc.DefaultControllerFactory.GetControllerTypeWithinNamespaces(String controllerName, HashSet`1 namespaces) +83 System.Web.Mvc.DefaultControllerFactory.GetControllerType(String controllerName) +305 System.Web.Mvc.DefaultControllerFactory.CreateController(RequestContext requestContext, String controllerName) +65 System.Web.Mvc.MvcHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContextBase httpContext) +128 System.Web.Mvc.MvcHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContext httpContext) +57 System.Web.Mvc.MvcHandler.System.Web.IHttpHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContext httpContext) +7 System.Web.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +181 System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +75