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

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I have downloaded the MVC Music Store ASP NET application at location C  Users DEVESH Desktop Projects MvcMusicStore-v3 0 MvcMusicStore-Completed MvcMusicStore  and added the website on IIS at the same location  I have also given permission to IIS IUSRS  but when I run localhost I am getting the error   HTTP Error 403 14 - Forbidden The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory   I have googled it  but have not found a fix  What I am doing wrong

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My colleagues made a URL Rewrite rule  which reduced all URLs to a StaticFileHandler  mapped to a file path at the root of my Application physical folder     i e  an over-aggressive URL rewrite means that my Controllers Actions were not working   Check your applications  URL Rewrite rules to confirm they do what you expect

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I have encountered similar myself before for 2 reasons  1  MVC is not installed   2  The url routing module is not registered  this varies by machine in my workplace for a reason I cannot fully explain - it is not always registered at a system level    try registering it in the application web config    lt system web gt                     lt httpModules gt                           lt add name  UrlRoutingModule  type  System Web Routing UrlRoutingModule  System Web Routing  Version 3 5 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31BF3856AD364E35    gt          lt  httpModules gt      lt  system web gt    Edit  I forgot to add the location for iis 7     lt system webServer gt           lt modules gt                           lt add name  UrlRoutingModule  type  System Web Routing UrlRoutingModule  System Web Routing  Version 3 5 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31BF3856AD364E35    gt          lt  modules gt   lt  system webServer gt

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I ve just had the same problem  but my fix was that the Routing was not configured in the Global asax cs file  I m using Bootstrapper and Castle Windsor  so to resolve this problem I added the following code to Global asax cs   public class MvcApplication   System Web HttpApplication               protected void Application Start                         Bootstrapper IncludingOnly Assembly Assembly GetAssembly typeof WindsorRegistration                     With                  Windsor                    With                  StartupTasks                    Start                      Obviously if you are using the basic MVC then you will need to reference the RouteConfig file in the AppStart folder instead   public class MvcApplication   System Web HttpApplication               protected void Application Start                         AreaRegistration RegisterAllAreas                FilterConfig RegisterGlobalFilters GlobalFilters Filters               RouteConfig RegisterRoutes RouteTable Routes               BundleConfig RegisterBundles BundleTable Bundles

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In my case index aspx file was not created by default and after adding another web form i did not set the form as start page    After setting the page as start page my issue get resolved   So right click a web form and set the form as start page

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I had this error after creating an empty ASP Net application in Visual Studio  As soon as I added a file index html to the main solution  it worked  So in my case  I just needed to add a file to the root of the project folder

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I resolved this issue by correcting an error with my Global asax file arrangement  I had copied across the files from another project and failed to embed the Global asax cs within the Global asax file  both files previously existed at the same level

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In my case ASP NET not registered on server  try to execute this in command prompt   Windows 32bit   windir  Microsoft NET Framework v4 0 30319 aspnet regiis exe -ir   Windows 64bit   windir  Microsoft NET Framework64 v4 0 30319 aspnet regiis exe -ir

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I faced a similar  but not identical  issue   I had to go to to Turn Windows features on or off in Control Panel and add ASP NET 3 5 and 4 7    Then it worked for me

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in my case  1  in  IIS Manager  in left tree  left click the computer name  in right dialog click ISAPI and CGT limitation  in open dialog  select ASP NET v4 0 30319 and select enable  There is two ASP Net v4 0  one for 32bit  another for 64 bit  select depending on your OS bit  2  in left tree select app pool  in right dialog  select the app pool your website used  double click that pool  in open dialog   net framke item select  net framework v 4 0 30319  and pipe  item select integate  Maybe there is some wrong translation above because my OS is not English version

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I came across this error because I had the wrong  NET version  v2 0 instead of v4 0  configured on the web site application pool  I fixed it this way on Windows Server 2008 R2 and IIS 7  I m pretty sure the instructions apply to Windows Server 2012 and IIS 8 as well    Press keys Windows R to open the Run dialog  type inetmgr and then click OK  This opens the IIS Manager  In the left treeview  locate the Sites node and find the Default Web Site node under it  or the name of the site where the error message appears   Right-click the node and select Manage web site -  Advanced settings     Note the name of the value Application pool  Close this dialog  In the treeview to the left  locate and select the node Application pools  In the list to the right  locate the Application pool with the same name as the one you noted in the web site settings  Right-click it and select Advanced settings    Make sure that the  NET Framework version value is v4 0  Click OK    This doesn t apply if you re running an older site that actually should have  NET v2 0  of course

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In my case  i had multiple projects but i had not defined the starting Project  So this error was generating   After defining the startUp project solved the issue

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I was using ASP NET 4 5 MVC application on IIS 7  My fix was to set runallmanagedmodule to true    lt system webServer gt               lt modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests  true    gt   lt  system webServer gt    or If you have other modules  you may want to add them inside the module tag    lt system webServer gt       lt modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests  true  gt                lt add name  ErrorLogWeb  type  Elmah ErrorLogModule  Elmah  preCondition  managedHandler    gt                        lt  modules gt   lt  system webServer gt    IIS Modules Overview   The Official Microsoft IIS Site

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Just in case if anyone reached here looking for solution  here is how i resolved it  By mistake I deleted all files from my server   bin directory   but when i recopied all files i missed App global asax dll  and App global asax compiled files  Because these files were missing IIS was giving me this error   403 - Forbidden  Access is denied    As soon as i added these files  it started working perfectly fine

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This error can happen when  in IIS Manager  the ASP NET MVC site is pointed to the wrong directory    In my case  I inadvertently had the site pointed to the solution directory instead of the child project directory   That is  I had the site s Physical path set to  C  dev MySolution   instead of   C  dev MySolution MyProject   Specific steps to fix this    Open IIS Manager  Start   Run   inetmgr   In IIS Manager  in the left pane  expand Sites  Under Sites  left-click the ASP NET MVC website  In the right pane  click Basic Settings     In the Edit Site dialog  change the Physical path to the project directory   Click OK

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Check this also   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    Method 1  Enable the Directory Browsing feature in IIS  Recommended  Method 2  Add a default document Method Method 3  Enable the Directory Browsing feature in IIS Express   LINK   https   support microsoft com en-us kb 942062

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In my case  I had to disable  Exclude files from the App Data folder  in my publish profile to deploy the App Data folder with my XML documentation  XmlDocument xml   That got rid of the 403 14

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IUSR permissions use on a folder if not under inetpub wwwroot  will be solution for some

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In my case when I browsed to  site5 com I got the following error   HTTP Error 403 14 - Forbidden The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory   Most likely causes  A default document is not configured for the requested URL  and directory browsing is not enabled on the server   And then when I browsed to   site5 com home index  I was met with  HTTP Error 404 0 - Not Found The resource you are looking for has been removed  had its name changed  or is temporarily unavailable   Most likely causes  The directory or file specified does not exist on the Web server  The URL contains a typographical error  A custom filter or module  such as URLScan  restricts access to the file   All that I did is installed the feature in IIS ASP NET 4 8 as shown below

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I faced similar issue  My controller name was documents  It manages uploaded documents  It was working fine and started showing this error after completion of code  The mistake I did is - Created a folder  Documents  to save the uploaded files  So controller name and folder name were same - which made the issue

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In case anyone comes across this for a project other than MVC   My project was a WCF project  which runs off  svc files--no default document   As a result I got a 403 14 error at myhost com  but as soon as I added a baseAddress path from my web config file  ex  myhost com mybaseaddresspath svc I got a webpage

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If project is a ASP net MVC project it would be about routing  In my case I changed default routing values   routes MapRoute              Default                                                              controller   action   id                                          new   controller    Home   action    Index   id                      I changed my code accidentally to    routes MapRoute                  Default                                                                  controller   action   JobID                                              new   controller    Home   action    Index   id                          Thats I only changed  id  to  JobId  and default route can not be find

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This error occurs when the application cannot startup  So the cause can be anything that prevents your application to start    Wrong connection string Wrong IIS directory permissions An exception thrown in your Application Start   function IOC Container initialization error IIS ASP NET registration errors Missing DLL in your bin folder etc

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

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