Short Version I am a beginner program and my experience with launching programs is

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Asked: May 26, 20262026-05-26T21:00:14+00:00 2026-05-26T21:00:14+00:00

Short Version I am a beginner program and my experience with launching programs is

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I am a beginner program and my experience with launching programs is essentially hitting f5 in visual studio. How do I deploy an ASP.NET MVC app on a windows 2k3 server? When deployed, how would I access/run the site?

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I am attempting to launch a simple ASP.NET MVC application to my company’s win 2k3 server. I have included the binaries (for the MVC architecture, System.Web.Mvc, etc.) in my project as I am unsure if sp1 for ASP.NET 3.5 is installed.

I have absolutely no experience with server deployment, outside of deploying a simple ASP classic site on my localhost, so far I’ve been coding with the development server.

What is the process? When I click publish from Visual Studio, I select disk path and place it on my desktop, and then I transfer that folder to the server directory I want. The directory currently works with classic ASP pages, so I am placing my mvc app in a folder in that directory.

How do I access my site? I’ve tried \server\directory\MyMVCAppFolder\Home and several variations. (I changed my routing in Global.asax to account for .aspx extension, which is a nessecary evil dealing with win 2k3’s IIS6)

In summation, how do I deploy a ASP.NET MVC site just having access to the server directory I wish to publish it, and how do I access it as an end user?