ASP.NET MVC on IIS 7.5

Question

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit) using Visual Studio 2010 RC. I recently decided to have VS run/debug my apps on IIS rather than the dev server that comes with it.

However, every time I try to run an MVC app, I get the following error:

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

Error Information

Module DirectoryListingModule

Notification ExecuteRequestHandler

Handler StaticFile Error

Code 0x00000000 Requested

URL http://localhost:80/mySite/

Physical Path C:\myProject\mySite\

Logon Method Anonymous Logon

User Anonymous

I placed a default.aspx file in the directory and I received the following error:

HTTP Error 500.21 - Internal Server Error Handler "PageHandlerFactory-Integrated" has a bad module "ManagedPipelineHandler" in its module list

Are there any other steps I forgot to take to get this working?

Notes: I installed IIS 7.5 after installing VS 2010 RC. I used the built-in "Create Virtual Directory" button under the "Web" tab in the MVC project's "Properties" in Visual Studio 2010. I made sure that the application is using the ASP.NET 4 App Pool.

Below are the installed features of IIS I have.

Answer 1

Please note for Windows 8 users you need to add/remove windows components and remove the version of .net reboot then re-install in order to register it with IIS. I presume this happens if you get .net 4.5 from visual studio and install IIS afterwards.

Answer 2

Adding another solution for this issue.

in my Global.asax.cs file I had disabled attempted php files from being consumed by the MVC pipeline using the following:

routes.IgnoreRoute( "{*php}" );

I had done these previously in a MVC2 project and it worked fine, but doing this in my MVC 3 app caused the issue reported above.

Answer 3

Also u can switch AppPool to Integrated mode. Thnx to Michael Bianchi (https://stackoverflow.com/a/7956546/1143515), I only want to underline that.

Answer 4

For me on an Azure Server 2012 R2 IIS 8.5 VM with an Asp.Net MVC 5 app (bin deployed MVC 5) I had to do the following from an elevated cmd prompt even though I had 4.5 already installed:

dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:IIS-ASPNET45

Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2736284

I also brute force installed all IIS features with the following PowerShell:

import-module servermanager
add-windowsfeature web-server -includeallsubfeature

Source: http://www.iis.net/learn/install/installing-iis-85/installing-iis-85-on-windows-server-2012-r2

Now my app is working.

Answer 5

I had used the WebDeploy IIS Extension to import my websites from IIS6 to IIS7.5, so all of the IIS settings were exactly as they had been in the production environment. After trying all the solutions provided here, none of which worked for me, I simply had to change the App Pool setting for the website from Classic to Integrated.

Answer 6

One more thing to make sure you have is the following set in your web.config:

<system.webServer>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/> 
</system.webServer>