IIS and asp.net appcmd

Question

HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden
The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory.
Most likely causes:

    A default document is not configured for the requested URL, and directory browsing is not enabled on the server.

Things you can try:

    If you do not want to enable directory browsing, ensure that a default document is configured and that the file exists.
    Enable directory browsing.
        Go to the IIS Express install directory.
        Run appcmd set config /section:system.webServer/directoryBrowse /enabled:true to enable directory browsing at the server level.
        Run appcmd set config ["SITE_NAME"] /section:system.webServer/directoryBrowse /enabled:true to enable directory browsing at the site level.
    Verify that the configuration/system.webServer/directoryBrowse@enabled attribute is set to true in the site or application configuration file.

I have the above error when I try to run my first application with VS12. Have you any idea of what is going wrong and how can I fix it ? In VS10 I guess I don't have this sort of error message

Solution

You need to enable directory listings and/or add a default document (default.aspx, default.htm...) to the root of the site.

For more information about directory listing: Enable directory listing

Comments

[Mike Atlas]

Did you try the Things you can try from the error message?

[Yabooo Yakhoo]

Yes, I did but it still didn't work

[Lex Li]

This single piece of information is useless. Are you doing ASP.NET MVC development? It seems that routing does not work, msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc668201.aspx

[Yabooo Yakhoo]

Thanks, no I am executing a simple webpage only and my IIS is just freshly set up. I have added <system.webServer> <directoryBrowse enabled="true"/> </system.webServer> into web.config file, and I can visit http://localhost:63420/ which only offers a list of all files in a site I created using inetmgr. Visiting each of the files in there is still infeasible, and displaying that sort of directory browsable is also not what I am looking into, I am testing a simple masterpage :-D

[Yabooo Yakhoo]

Sure enough, if I set the directoryBrowse attribute option to false, I again run into the same error message. {bored!} By the way, This error doesn't display in Webmatrix2, (it works really fine with WM2). And IO am installing VS10 to see if the same error occurs. I hope not. 80% sure it will work with vs10 because my home machine never reports this kind of error at all. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate SP1.

[Yabooo Yakhoo]

Thank you for your reply, I have followed and did what you suggested but i still run into the same error message