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Asked: 2026-05-12T05:29:58+00:00

I need to do a Bin deployment on our ISP, Network Solutions. They have

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I need to do a Bin deployment on our ISP, Network Solutions. They have NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installed on their servers, but NOT ASP.NET MVC.

I need to point my application to a directory called cgi-bin instead of bin. Network Solutions says that this is the only directory they have marked for execution as medium trust. I need to put the System.Web.Mvc DLL and the application DLL there, and I need my ASP.NET MVC application to find them in that directory.

It goes without saying that they won’t put them in the GAC for me.

How do I tell my application to look in the cgi-bin directory instead of the bin directory for the DLL’s?

Solution is posted below.

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  1. Editorial Team

    After tinkering for awhile, I finally decided to deploy to an actual bin directory that I created (a procedure that Network Solutions says will not work) following Phil Haacked’s instructions exactly, and it appears to be working.

    I did have to apply the routing patch described in ASP.NET MVC: Default page works, but other pages return 404 error, because Network Solutions is still running IIS6.

    For those who are interested, you can specify a different bin directory in web.config like this:

    <runtime>
  <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
    <probing privatePath="SomeFolder/bin" />
  </assemblyBinding>
</runtime>

    I tried this with Network Solution’s cgi-bin directory and my application did indeed find the mvc dll’s.

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