HTTP Error 403 14 - Forbidden - The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory

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I just created a new empty website in Visual Studio 2012 and clicked on run  i e view in browser  and I get this error    HTTP Error 403 14 - Forbidden The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory   I went into IIS and clicked on Directory browsing and then ensured that Directory browsing was enabled but I still get this error   I can t figure it out    The website project I just created is not listed in Default web sites in IIS Manager which I thought was odd   How do I get rid of this error

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I m sure after years you probably have an answer already  But in case someone else is looking for an answer in the future   For my problem  I didn t have to at anything to the web config  I didn t think I would need to either as it was working previously    Make sure no folder is named the same as your page  I had a folder called  blog  and a page named  blog aspx   it was trying to load the folder  I noticed this in the link  changed the folder to blogContent  now it loads fine   I m posting a copy here as you re the first in the search query

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I have one quick remedy for this  In fact I got this error because I had not set my web page as start page  When I did my web page html  aspx  as set start page as shown below I got this error corrected   I don t know whether this solution will help others

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Control Panel  gt  Turn Windows Features on or off Internet Information Services  gt  World Wide Web Services  gt  Application Development Features Enable the two options  NET Extensibility 3 5   ASP NET 3 5

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I was getting this error and change the Application Pool Managed Pipeline Mode to  Integrated  solves the problem   Source  Running a  NET 4 6 MVC application on IIS 8 5  Windows Server 2012

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You should install Application Development part of IIS on your server as you may see in this picture

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right click on your project in solution explorer and then click add new item  add a HTML page and name it as index HTML after all rerun your application

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In my case  I experienced this error because my webapp was  NET v4  and the application pool was configured for  NET v2   Double-clicking on the application pool brings up a popup window  where we can select the desired version of  NET Framework

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Set a start page   When I had this problem  I went into the solution explorer  found the page I wanted to see first  in my case  Home aspx   right clicked on it and selected  Set As Start Page   This fixed my issue  which sounded really similar to yours   This was in Visual Studio 2012 Professional and I ran it in Firefox

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In my case  In Application Pool i set  NetFrameWork version to V4 0 and solved problem

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Go to cmd and type this   for x64 O S   windir  Microsoft NET Framework64 v4 0 30319 aspnet regiis exe -ir  for x32 O S   windir  Microsoft NET Framework v4 0 30319 aspnet regiis exe -ir  This will install the right version and IIS will understand the MVC directory  browsing

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On the site in IIS     select  Advance Settings  Then for application pool choose  ASP NET v4 0

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This problem occurs because the Web site does not have the Directory Browsing feature enabled  and the default document is not configured  To resolve this problem  use one of the following methods  To resolve this problem  I followed the steps in Method 1 as mentioned in the MS Support page and its the recommended method    Method 1  Enable the Directory Browsing feature in IIS  Recommended    Start IIS Manager  To do this  click Start  click Run  type inetmgr exe  and then click OK  In IIS Manager  expand server name  expand Web sites  and then click the website that you want to modify  In the Features view  double-click Directory Browsing  In the Actions pane  click Enable    If that does not work for  you might be having different problem than just a Directory listing issue  So follow the below step   Method 2  Add a default document  To resolve this problem  follow these steps    Start IIS Manager  To do this  click Start  click Run  type inetmgr exe  and then click OK  In IIS Manager  expand server name  expand Web sites  and then click the website that you want to modify  In the Features view  double-click Default Document  In the Actions pane  click Enable  In the File Name box  type the name of the default document  and then click OK    Method 3  Enable the Directory Browsing feature in IIS Express  Note This method is for the web developers who experience the issue when they use IIS Express   Follow these steps    Open a command prompt  and then go to the IIS Express folder on your computer   For example  go to the following folder in a command prompt   C  Program Files IIS Express Type the following command  and then press Enter    appcmd set config  section system webServer directoryBrowse  enabled true

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Empty website template creates an ASP NET website that includes a Web config file but no other files  Means you have not any default page to show on browse or run   This error message simply means that you did not setup and configure the default document properly on your IIS   Once this is configured  the error message will go away

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In my case I was missing the Microsoft Owin Host SystemWeb nuget

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SOLVED  Search  Windows Feature  on start -   Click  turn features on and off  -   Expand  Internet Information Services  and  Check every progrm in every subfolder and Click  OK   This will fix all your problems

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I open one old Asp net webform   Net Framework4 5 solution with Visual Studio 2019  has same issue  The solution quite simple  go to web project s properties- gt  Web- gt  checked  quot Override application root URL quot  - gt  assign another port number  Save the solution and run in debug mode again  Problem resolved

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Problem  Error   403 13 when running WebForms ASP Net website from Visual Studio   Solution  Access to the root is denied  http   localhost 51365  Navigate to the Login page or any page that exists and it will work   http   localhost 51365 Login aspx

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This can be caused by a bum applicationhost config entry   Stop IIS Express if it s running  right-click the light-blue scroll-thingy icon in the Windows System Tray  Exit    Go to your project s Properties   Web  and check that the Project Url is correct  In case of an https url  make sure it includes a port number in the valid range  A correct URL could be  https   localhost 44300   Now press the  Create Virtual Directory -button next to the URL  This adds a new entry to applicationhost config   Start the project again and hopefully you will no longer get the error

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The problem may come from running the project from visual studio on IIS while being on the wrong opened tab on visual studio  so the solution is either opening the right tab  the webform you want to test on your browser  or as others suggested in the other answers  right click on the webform that you want to set as a homepage then click on  Set As A Start Page

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I solved my problem with fallow this steps      Open IIS Manager Click the Application Click Directory Browsing Click Open Feature  On the right you will see under Actions  Click Enable

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There can be multiple reasons for the issue  One that worked for me on IIS 8 5 was as follow  Steps   Type  turn windows features on or off  in search  Click on  Add Roles and features  in Server Manager  In Wizard scroll down to the Web server and select   Web Server -  Application Development  Select all except CGI from the list as shown in the screen shot      Finally hit next and Install  Restart IIS   Your website may start working

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For my case  I received the same error after creating an empty Web Api project   I solved it by editing RouteConfig cs in the App Start folder     I replaced the line of code reading  -  defaults  new   action    Index   id   UrlParameter Optional     with the following  -  defaults  new   controller    Index   action    Index   id   UrlParameter Optional    Notice I just had to specify the Controller whose index action I would like to invoke first   Well all the above responses didn t solve my case  as I wanted  e g     Enabling directory browsing from web config just listed all files and folders in my project just like php would do when you don t have an index file Setting defaultDocument also didn t work for me somehow still got the HTTP Error 403 14  Still have no idea why    If there may be anyone in similar circumstances as mine then give this a try

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This could happen for any number of reasons  If you have tried through all of the above and still getting the same error  I have one more solution   Another reason this could happen is that    If you have the same code base running before you started to run the fresh solution  you might encounter this error  The reason is that IIS Express is trying to run on the same port as it was for the old solution which has the physical path registered for the application start URL   Since the IIS cannot figure out the physical path to run the solution  it might not be able to locate all the dlls required to start the application    Solutions     Try to change the application port to default  For example    Use http   localhost  instead of http   localhost 25836  Try changing to any other port if you have already used the default port for the previous application  ex  http   localhost 25364  instead of http   localhost    This will allow the IIS IIS Express to point to the default bin path of the newer application you are trying to run which will have all the required dlls to start the application

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Try to add the following settings to web config file    lt system webServer gt       lt modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests  true   gt   lt  system webServer gt

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keep this into your web config file then rename the add value  yourwebformname aspx      lt system webServer gt       lt defaultDocument gt          lt files gt             lt add value  insertion aspx    gt          lt  files gt       lt  defaultDocument gt       lt directoryBrowse enabled  false    gt   lt  system webServer gt    else   lt system webServer gt       lt directoryBrowse enabled  true    gt   lt  system webServer gt

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I just pasted this code snippet inside web config file and the error was solved    lt system webServer gt       lt directoryBrowse enabled  true    gt   lt  system webServer gt

[asp.net] HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden - The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory

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