Can not find index view when deploying to production?

Question

I'm hit a problem when attempting to deploy a MVC app as a sub-application of an existing ASP.NET 3.5 app (non MVC). The error is:

The view 'index' or its master could not be found. The following locations were searched:
~/Views/employment/index.aspx
~/Views/employment/index.ascx
~/Views/Shared/index.aspx
~/Views/Shared/index.ascx

The application works fine when running inside of visual studio web developer express SP1 and also works when configured as the top level web site.

I'm developing under XP (IIS 6ish) so I've already configured the wildcard mappings etc. The MVC app is configured as a virtual folder directly underneath the root web site (http://localhost/ROHAS where ROHAS is the virtual folder pointing to my MVC solution). I've also tried adding routes in the global.asax.cs to compensate for the sub application's virtual path:

routes.MapRoute("NetPortal",    // Route name<br>
            "localhost/rohas/{controller}/{action}/{id}");

and also

routes.MapRoute("NetPortal",    // Route name<br>
            "rohas/{controller}/{action}/{id}");

I've even tried adding another virtual folder that just points to the Views folder in my MVC solution.

However, I still get the error detailed above.

Jan Jongboom Jan Jongboom · Accepted Answer · 2009-09-04T12:26:54

You have to create a Virtual Directory in the website youre using the MVC project in, with the name 'Views', which points to the Views directory in your MVC project. Make sure to just create a VD with only 'Read' access in IIS Manager, and make also sure you do not have a Application for the VD.

(VD -> Properties -> Make sure the application section is greyed out)

Can not find index view when deploying to production?

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