Deploying ASP. NET MVC 3 to IIS 6. I recently built a new ASP.
NET MVC 3 (. NET 4) web application which unfortunately has be hosted on Windows Server 2. IIS 6. Guess I’d figured getting it running on IIS 6 would be as easy as installing . NET 4 and ASP. NET MVC 3 on the server… but it wasn’t.
This isn’t a step by step tutorial on how to get this working, but more of a list of things to look out for and some links to helpful material which all helped getting my site up and running. Installations. Install the . NET 4 Framework. Install ASP. NET MVC 3. Apparently you can avoid installing ASP.
NET MVC 3 on the server and just deploy all the appropriate MVC assemblies in the bin folder of your app instead, but I couldn’t get this to work. IIS Configuration. Make sure ASP. NET v. Allowed’ under Web Service Extensions in IIS – it is ‘Prohibited’ by default. Create a new app pool for your web site to use – IIS 6 app pools cannot run sites under different frameworks so make sure this app pool is only used for your new site. IIS Website Configuration. Right click on your new website and select ‘Properties’: Under the ‘ASP.
NET’ tab, make sure that the ASP. NET version is set to ‘4. Under the ‘Home Directory’ tab, make sure that ‘Execute permissions’ is set to ‘Scripts only’ (at least). Click on the ‘Configuration’ button in the ‘Home Directory’ tab and make sure that all the Application extensions are mapped to . NET 4 versions of the dlls. Add a ‘Wildcard application mapping’ – click on ‘Insert’ and enter ‘C: \WINDOWS\Microsoft.
Installing IIS 7; Installing Publishing Technologies; Web Platform Installer; Installing IIS 8.5; Installing Necessary IIS 7.0 Components on Windows Vista. This latest.Net framework release, ASP.NET 4.5, comes packed with countless new features and improvements. To upgrade your ASP.Net 4.0 framework to this new version. Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 is the web server software included with Windows. IIS isn’t installed by default when you install Windows. Installs powered by the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. By downloading and using the Web Platform Installer (Web PI), you agree. I recently built a new ASP.NET MVC 3 (.NET 4) web application which unfortunately has be hosted on Windows Server 2003 running IIS 6. Guess I’d figured getting it.
ASP.NET 4 was not registered in IIS. Had to run the following command in the command line/run. 32bit (x86) Windows %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet.
NET\Framework\v. 4. Executable’. Leave ‘Verify that file exists’ unchecked – checking this made my routes stop working. Permissions. If you’re running under an account with limited permissions, you may need to grant it ‘List Folder Contents’ and ‘Read’ permissions on the Windows Temp directory. I needed to do this because I’m calling out to web services and .
There is an IIS 7.5 freshly installed on a dedicated server. ASP.NET 4.0 Web app copied to its folder, new website is created on its own IP on post 80, IIS_IUSR and. Running PHP on IIS. Increase the performance of PHP applications running on Windows Server with the Windows Cache Extension for PHP. Improved performance and greater.
NET creates temporary classes in the Windows Temp directory with which to serialize objects from XML. Not sure if this is needed if you’re not doing any serializations, but worth mentioning.
Conclusion. I kept getting 4. I first deployed my new ASP. NET MVC 3 (. NET 4) web application to IIS 6, but after doing / checking all of the above, it all seems to be working smoothly. And last but not least: if you’re allowed to, try recycling your application pool and resetting IIS if some changes don’t seem to be making much difference. Useful linkshttp: //haacked.
The Official Microsoft IIS Site. Configuring Step 1: Install IIS and ASP. NET Modules. Keith Newman and Robert Mc. Murray. April 1. 4, 2. The first step in building an ASP.
NET website on IIS 8 is to install IIS along with the ASP. NET modules. Then add your ASP. NET application files to IIS.
The following list shows the tasks required to complete this step: When you are done, make sure that IIS and the ASP. NET modules are installed, and your ASP. NET application has been added to your website. Then go on to Step 2: Configure ASP. NET Settings. Installing IIS and ASP. NET Modules. This section describes how to install IIS and the modules that support ASP.
NET applications in any of the following ways: Install IIS on Windows Server. В® 2. 01. 2 using the IIS Manager UI. Install IIS on Windows. В® 8 using the IIS Manager UI. Install IIS using the command line. Important: To install IIS on either Windows Server 2. Windows 8, you must sign on as a member of the Administrators group.
If you prefer, you could use the Web Platform Installer (Web PI) to install IIS and third- party applications that run on IIS. Because the Web PI installs the latest versions of available Web Platform offerings, with just a few simple clicks you can download and install any new tools or updates. To learn more about the Web PI, see Learn more and install the Web PI. If you support web applications written using ASP. NET 2 to 3. 5, install .
NET 3. 5 before installing IIS and ASP. NET modules. To install . NET 3. 5 on Windows Server 2. Windows 8. On the Start screen, right- click the Command Prompt tile, and then click Run as administrator. At the command prompt, type the following: dism /online /enable- feature /featurename: netfx.
Wait for the command to complete. It could take several minutes. Close the command prompt window.
To install IIS and ASP. NET modules on Windows Server 2. UIOn the Start page, click the Server Manager tile, and then click OK. In Server Manager, select Dashboard, and click Add roles and features. In the Add Roles and Features Wizard, on the Before you begin page, click Next.
On the Select installation type page, select Role- based or feature- based installation, and click Next. On the Select destination server page, select Select a server from the server pool, select your server, and click Next. On the Select server roles page, select Web Server (IIS), and click Next. On the Select features page, click Next. On the Web Server Role (IIS) page, click Next. On the Select role services page, note the preselected role services that are installed by default, expand the Application Development node, and then select ASP. NET 4. 5. (If you installed .
NET 3. 5, select ASP. NET 3. 5 also.)On the Summary of Features to Install page, confirm your selections, and then click Install. In the Add features that are required for ASP. NET 4. 5? box, click Add Features. The following additional features are added.
NET Extensibility 4. ISAPI Extensions. ISAPI Filters. NET Extensibility 3. If ASP. NET 3. 5 was selected)Click Next.
On the Confirm installation selections page, click Install. On the Installation progress page, confirm that your installation of the Web Server (IIS) role and required role services completed successfully, and then click Close. To verify that IIS installed successfully, type the following into a web browser: http: //localhost.
The default IIS Welcome page is displayed. To install IIS and ASP. NET modules on Windows 8 by using the UIOn the Start page, click the Control Panel tile. In Control Panel, click Programs, and then click Turn Windows features on or off. In the Windows Features dialog box, click Internet Information Services to install the default features. Expand the Application Development Features node and click ASP. NET 4. 5 to add the features that support ASP.
NET. (If you installed . NET 3. 5, select ASP.
NET 3. 5 also.) The following additional features are automatically selected. NET Extensibility 4. ISAPI Extensions. ISAPI Filters. NET Extensibility 3. If ASP. NET 3. 5 was selected)Click OK to close the Windows Features dialog box.
To verify that IIS installed successfully, type the following into a web browser: http: //localhost. The default IIS Welcome page is displayed. To install IIS and ASP.
NET modules by using the command line. Type the following command at a Command Prompt or into a script: Start /w pkgmgr /iu: IIS- Web.
Server. Role; IIS- Web. Server; IIS- Common. Http. Features; IIS- Static. Content; IIS- Default. Document; IIS- Directory. Browsing; IIS- Http.
Errors; IIS- Application. Development; IIS- ASPNET; IIS- Net. Fx. Extensibility; IIS- ISAPIExtensions; IIS- ISAPIFilter; IIS- Health. And. Diagnostics; IIS- Http.
Logging; IIS- Logging. Libraries; IIS- Request. Monitor; IIS- Security; IIS- Request. Filtering; IIS- Http.
Compression. Static; IIS- Web. Server. Management. Tools; IIS- Management. Console; WAS- Windows. Activation. Service; WAS- Process.
Model; WAS- Net. Fx. Environment; WAS- Configuration. APIAdding the ASP. NET Application. This section describes how to add your ASP. NET application to your website in the following ways: Adding an ASP.
NET Application with the IIS Manager UIAdding an ASP. NET application with the command line. In Plan an ASP. NET Website on IIS, you made the following decisions: Alias string that becomes part of the application root URL. Application pool to run the application in.
Physical path to the application files on the server. To add an ASP. NET application by using the UIOpen IIS Manager. For Windows Server 2. Start page click the Server Manager tile, and then click OK.
In Server Manager, click the Tools menu, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager. For Windows 8, on the Start page type Control Panel, and then click the Control Panel icon in the search results. On the Control Panel screen, click System and Security, click Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager. In the Connections pane, expand the Sites node.
Right- click the site for which you want to create an application, and click Add Application. In the Alias text box, type a value for the application URL, such as marketing. This value is used to access the application in a URL. Click Select if you want to select a different application pool than the one listed in the Application pool box. In the Select Application Pool dialog box, select an application pool from the Application pool list and then click OK. In the Physical path text box, type the physical path of the application's folder, or click the browse button (..) to navigate the file system to find the folder.
Optionally, click Connect as to specify credentials that have permission to access the physical path. If you do not use specific credentials, select the Application user (pass- through authentication) option on the Connect As dialog box. Optionally, click Test Settings to verify the settings that you specified for the application. Click OK. To add an ASP. NET application by using the command line. To add an application to a site, use the following syntax: appcmd add app /site. Path: string. The variable site.
The variable path: string is the virtual path of the application, such as /application, and physical. Path: string is the physical path of the application content in the file system. For example, to add an application named marketing to a site named contoso, with content at c: \application, type the following at the command prompt, and then press ENTER: appcmd add app /site. Path: c: \application.
See Also. By. В Keith Newman and Robert Mc. Murray. Keith Newman and Robert Mc. Murray are technical writers on the Web Platform and Tools team at Microsoft.