ASP.NET MVC - Is it even possible to have multiple MVC projects on the same server?

Question

I'm having so many problems getting more than 1 MVC project up and running on the same server... I'm using a Windows XP system running the default IIS (5.1 I believe).

At this moment I'm even building WebSetup projects for every project I create to make sure everything goes well, while these projects could very easily be deployed using XCopy.

Bottom line, I can get a MVC project (e.g. ContactManager example) running at: http://servername, OR http://servername/ContactManager. But as soon as I have a project at both locations the horror starts

"title is not a member of ViewPage" -> yeah, right...
Section or group name 'system.web.extensions' is already defined. -> sure 
let me <clear /> or <remove /> that one, oh that's not valid... 

Is it even possible to have more than 1 ASP.NET MVC project (application) running on the same Windows XP machine?

http://server/       Root project  (MVC)
http://server/app1   Application 1 (MVC)
http://server/app2   Application 2 (MVC)
http://server/appX   Application X (MVC)

Can somebody name some points of attention or something?

Answer 1

Is it even possible to have more than 1 ASP.NET MVC project (application), running on the same Windows XP machine?

Yes, it is absolutely possible to have more than 1 ASP.NET MVC application at same Windows XP machine. I've just created two new ASP.NET MVC applications on my test machine running fresh Windows XP SP3 and they works smoothly.

UPDATED:

I've just created 3d application:

• IIS root path changed to that application
• Added mapping .* to C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll.
• Checked anonymous access

Still all 3 applications works very well

UPDATED:

There is one issue with mapping .* to C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll at the server root: all your not-MVC plain ASP.NET applications will stop working.

Home this helps

Answer 2

Yes this is possible. I have 3 MVC applications running under 1 main MVC application.

- Main site
           - Administration
           - Sub App 2
           - ...

However, you need to check the following details.

1. check the main and sub applications are all setup to use the wildcard mapping for MVC with aspnet_isapi.dll.

2. due to inheritance of web.configs you need to set a property in your root MVC application... wrap this around your < system.web >

<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
   <system.web>...
</location>