Getting an ASP.MVC2/VS2010 application to work in IIS 7.5

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I've recently downloaded beta 2 of VS2010 and started playing with ASP.NET MVC2. Initial development was done with Casini, but now I wanted to run the application from IIS 7.5 (I'm running Windows 7). I've installed the IIS6 metabase compatiblity and I run VS2010 as administrator so I can use the "Create Virtual Directory" button from the "Web" tab of the project settings. This created the web application entry in IIS, but it doesn't work. When I go to the main page (http://localhost/MyMvcApp/) I get a HTTP 403 error. When I go directly to one of the sub-pages (http://localhost/MyMvcApp/Home/) I get an HTTP 404. So I guess for some reason the URL routing isn't working. I've already added UrlRouting as a module and a handler to the web.config. In my searches this is offered as a solution for some similair problems. But for me this still doesn't work. The interesting part of my web.config looke like this: ```

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After more checking and trying I noticed in the "Turn Windows features on or off" dialog that "HTTP Errors" and "HTTP Redirection" were missing. This is strange because as far as I can remember this was installed automatically by the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. In any case "HTTP Redirection" seemed like a need-to-have feature when working with MVC. So after I installed it everything seemed to work perfectly.

Getting an ASP.MVC2/VS2010 application to work in IIS 7.5

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