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UPDATED – pointed to the wrong directory at first. Thanks for the tip Wiktor. Still not succeeded in running the MVC4 application via

I am trying (for a while now.. :)) to set up a simulated multi tenant webapp on my development PC. I learned that this is not possible with visual studio’s internal webserver, so I am trying to set up IIS.

I added the fake tenants in my hosts.

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 tenant1.mydomain.com
127.0.0.1 tenant2.mydomain.com

In IIS I made a new website test(port 8081), and just pointed it to C:\Azure\Websites\. In that directory I added a Hello World html file to see if this bit works.

• I navigated to localhost:8081 => Hello world
• I navigated to tenant1.mydomain.com:8081 => Hello world.

Cool, first proof of life.

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Next step: getting this working with a MVC4 webapp created in VS2012.

I started a new MVC4 webapp and stored it in:
C:\Azure\Websites\MvcApplication1

I just use the default generated website for the test, so I pressed F5 and verified the site is opened in firefox. So the goal is to get this working from IIS.

• Created a new website test2 (port 8082)
• Set test2 app pool to .net4.0
• Point the physical directory to C:\Azure\Websites\MvcApplication1\MvcApplication1\
• Navigate to localhost:8082

HTTP Error 500.21 – Internal Server Error
Handler “ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0” has a bad module “ManagedPipelineHandler” in its module list

Uninstalled ASP.NET and reinstalled it again. Same results.

when I change web.config from

preCondition="classicMode,runtimeVersionv4.0,bitness32"

to

preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0,bitness32"

Then I get this error:

HTTP Error 404.2 – Not Found
The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the ISAPI and CGI Restriction list settings on the Web server.

Can I stress the fact that I am a n00b regarding IIS configuration… 🙂

Any ideas?

Answer 1

ISAPI and CGI Restictions in IIS:

• Add isapi dll for .net 4 32bit
• Add isapi dll for .net 4 64bit

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_isapi.dll

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_isapi.dll

And it works. Finally!

Thanks Wiktor