Deploying MVC 4 application to localhost gives HTTP Error 404

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Using Visual Studio 2012 Express on Windows 7, From MVC 4 internet application template I created a new project, then used the simple membership and tested successfuly the authentication. Then to try the simplest deployment way, as first step I tried the application on localhost, following the next steps: - published the project using File System publish method, - targeted a new folder: "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MyApp", - copied App_Data folder into "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MyApp", - allowed to IIS_IUSRS read permission on folder "MyApp". As database is an SQL CE type, I think that there is nothing to change in the web.config connectionStrings section. Publishing went great untill the final step: browser loading, I got the next error: Not Found HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found. - with Error code: 0x80070002 I failed to find an answer to this issue on google in a limited time, Please advise what could be done ?

Accepted Answer

As stated in my comments, make sure your URL is correctly formatted in the Project Properties. Also, make sure you set up a default startup page (if you don't have an Index action in the Home Controller).

Deploying MVC 4 application to localhost gives HTTP Error 404

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