Question

Can I have an MVC3 application in ~/priv/, and another in ~/pub?

It seems that if I first put an application in ~/priv/ then when I go to “XXX.XXXXX.com/” it serves the application in ~/priv. Can I solve this with routes? Is there something I am missing? Please help!

Edit:
To be clear, is there a way that the structure can look like:

[root]
  [priv]
  [pub]

so that if someone goes to root neither one is seen, if someone goes to root/priv they the priv app and if someone goes to root/pub they get the pub app.

Answer 1

You need to make sure of several things:

• The virtual directories [pub] and [priv] must each be configured as an Application in IIS.
• If [root] is configured as an application, any applications in sub folders will inherit the values from web.config, even if they run under a different app pools. Make sure this is not causing a conflict or unexpected behavior.

• Check for the setting runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests=true. If [root] is configured as an Application, it may be intercepting the call fro IIS before it gets to a child application. You may want to add the following to the web.config of [root] (but make sure to override this in [pub] and [priv]:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <configuration>
      <system.webServer>
      <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="false">
              <remove name="UrlRoutingModule-4.0" />
          </modules>
      </system.webServer>
  </configuration>
  

• Then, in web.config for [pub] and [priv] you can add:

  <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">
      <add name="UrlRoutingModule-4.0" type="System.Web.Routing.UrlRoutingModule" />
  </modules>