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I have an ASP.NET Web API which works fine when running on "IIS Express" with localhost:1783
But when I uncross the "Use IIS Express" and then press "Create Virtual Directory"...
...I just get 404 errors: 
Any ideas whats wrong? Thanks!
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Resolution. To resolve this problem, verify that the file requested in the browser's URL exists on the IIS computer and that it is in the correct location. Use the IIS Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in to determine where the file requested must exist in the IIS computer's file system.
Go to IIS and right-click on the application then select Manage Application -> Browse. It will look as in the image shown below. The preceding Blue screen shows that the Web API is up and running. Since the WebApi is already in running mode, I'll execute the following link to add an employee to the database.
A simple solution is to check for the HTTP status code 404 in the response. If found, you can redirect the control to a page that exists. The following code snippet illustrates how you can write the necessary code in the Configure method of the Startup class to redirect to the home page if a 404 error has occurred.
While the marked answer gets it working, all you really need to add to the webconfig is:
<handlers> <!-- Your other remove tags--> <remove name="UrlRoutingModule-4.0"/> <!-- Your other add tags--> <add name="UrlRoutingModule-4.0" path="*" verb="*" type="System.Web.Routing.UrlRoutingModule" preCondition=""/> </handlers> Note that none of those have a particular order, though you want your removes before your adds.
The reason that we end up getting a 404 is because the Url Routing Module only kicks in for the root of the website in IIS. By adding the module to this application's config, we're having the module to run under this application's path (your subdirectory path), and the routing module kicks in.
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For me, in addition to having runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" I also had to edit the "path" attribute below. Previously my path attribute was "*." which means it only executed on url's containing a dot character. However, my application's url's don't contain a dot. When I switched path to "*" then it worked. Here's what I have now:
<system.webServer> <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" /> <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"> <remove name="WebDAVModule"/> </modules> <handlers> <remove name="WebDAV" /> <remove name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-ISAPI-4.0_32bit" /> <remove name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-ISAPI-4.0_64bit" /> <remove name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0" /> <add name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-ISAPI-4.0_32bit" path="*" verb="*" modules="IsapiModule" scriptProcessor="%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_isapi.dll" preCondition="classicMode,runtimeVersionv4.0,bitness32" responseBufferLimit="0" /> <add name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-ISAPI-4.0_64bit" path="*" verb="*" modules="IsapiModule" scriptProcessor="%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_isapi.dll" preCondition="classicMode,runtimeVersionv4.0,bitness64" responseBufferLimit="0" /> <add name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0" path="*" verb="*" type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" /> </handlers> </system.webServer> If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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