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Asked: 2026-05-25T10:15:01+00:00

I am trying to make Visual Studio 2010 to run my project under a

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I am trying to make Visual Studio 2010 to run my project under a local instance of IIS 7.5 instead of starting the web development server. There is no problem deploying it to IIS, but when i try to browse to the site, it’s like the routes never been registered in IIS because i get error “The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory.” when i try to browse “http://localhost/returnjson”, and when i browse “http://localhost/returnjson/Home/Index” i get error 404. And there is nothing wrong with the routes in my project, it works under web development server. What could be the problem?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s hard to say what’s wrong here but there are a couple of things you could try.

    You could be looking at the wrong application. IIS comes pre-configured with a default application that acts as a catch all. Any unmapped domain name will end up there. So, by default when you visit localhost you’ll end up there.

    If you deployed your application into a new IIS site, make sure you bind it a proper domain name like myapp.local. Then add that domain name to your hosts file (%Windows%\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts) and map it to IP 127.0.0.1.

    Another thing that could be wrong is that your IIS configuration is a bit screwed up. It happens sometimes. You can fix that with aspnet_regiis like so:

    aspnet_regiis -ir

    This tool is located under:

    %Windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319
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