Publishing MVC3 app to IIS error - The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory

Question

I published my website to "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Sem_App" and created a website with physical path "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Sem_App" and port 84. When I browse the website on http://localhost:84/ I get the following error.

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

I do not want to list contents of the directory anyways, I want to run the default page that used to run in debugging mode of VS 2010. Anybody know what's going on?

I tried running this command and restarted iis but it didn't work C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -ir

Answer 1

You may need to enable directory browsing option in IIS. Check out the below link for ASP.NET MVC deployment to IIS 6. (For .Net 4.0)

http://www.codefrenzy.net/2011/10/19/deploying-asp-net-mvc-3-to-iis-6/

Answer 2

go to cmd type this and you're good to go %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -ir

windir is typically C:\Windows