MVC3 RC app deployed on IIS 6 giving "403 forbidden" error

Question

I've deployed a very simple MVC3 RC app to an IIS 6 + Windows 2003 server. I'm just getting a "403 forbidden" error when trying to accesss the root. Right now the app is only one page, so there are no others to try out.

I noticed there is no longer a default.aspx in the root to handle default requests, could this maybe be the problem? Or is there some special config needed for IIS 6?

Solution 1

It depends. If you are using extensionless routes then yes there's a special config.

Solution 2

I've just deployed an MVC3 RC app on IIS6.0+win2003 server recently,

To get the route works correct ,all your should do is to intall .net framework4.0. see this blog post from Haacked: http://haacked.com/archive/2010/12/22/asp-net-mvc-3-extensionless-urls-on-iis-6.aspx

Comments

[Brady Moritz]

I turned on wildcard mapping for now. bleh ;)

[Brady Moritz]

I'm not able to test this, but it does look like this might be the solution.

[Brady Moritz]

Actually in my specific case, I already had disabled extensionless urls on my server due to other incompatibilities. fun ;/

[user1539401]

I found wildcard mapping solved the problem - was using ASP.Net 4 and MVC3 on IIS6/Windows 2003 and in spite of the "should just work" idea introduced with MVC3 it didn't for me.

[David Keaveny]

This works particularly if you are getting 403 errors. If you apply this step and are getting 404 errors, try the following : twentyeighttwelve.com/…