When I create a project from the Visual Studio 2013 Durandal template and run the project, it serves a working instance of the Durandal Starter Kit web out of my development web server.
When I deploy this to an IIS Web Application, it gets as far as the splash screen, and there it stalls. Fiddler reveals a 404 trying to GET /App/main.js HTTP/1.1
which clearly is the reason it stalls.
This brings us to the question: presumably there are settings requiring attention, but what and where? This should be GET /c2/App/main.js HTTP/1.1
or possibly GET App/main.js HTTP/1.1
This will work regardless of the route. If you are using
ASP.NET MVC - Razor
.Assuming that your file is located at c2/Scripts/app/main.js where c2 is your project folder.
I don't know whether it should be me or the author of the project template to feel embarrassed. In the Index.cshtml file, main.js is loaded by this line:
Really? An absolute URL?
At least it's easy to fix.
Either remove the leading slash or add a base tag to the HTML like this:
You're better off removing the leading slash from
data-main
because with a relative path you can publish to any location. I suppose you could also specify a relative base for the base tag but I've never tested it and it's more code anyway.