A default document is not configured for the requested URL and directory browsing is not enabled on the server

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I have just deployed my asp net mvc-2 website to a server  using dotnetpanel   But getting this error  A default document is not configured for the requested URL  and directory browsing is not enabled on the server    What settings I needs  Its dotnetpanel based hosting server

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This can also occur if you do something stupid  like I did  and place the api url in the  Project Url   e g  http   localhost 59088 api Product  on the Project Properties- Web tab instead of specifying it in the  Specific Page  text box  This causes Visual Studio to go ahead and create an APP called ProjectName api Product  and this will expect a default page  The only way to undo this is to go to C  Program Files  x86  IIS Express and use appcmd exe to delete it like so   gt   appcmd exe delete APP  ProjectName api Product

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Make sure you have your default page named as index aspx and not something like main aspx or home aspx    And also see to it that all your properties in your class matches exactly with that of your table in the database  Remove any properties that is not in sync with the database  That solved my problem

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I faced the same error posted by OP while trying to debug my ASP NET website using IIS Express server  IIS Express is used by Visual Studio to run the website when we press F5   Open solution explorer in Visual Studio -  Expand the web application project node  StudentInfo in my case  -  Right click on the web page which you want to get loaded when your website starts StudentPortal aspx in my case  -  Select Set as Start Page option from the context menu as shown below  It started to work from the next run     Root cause  I concluded that the start page which is the default document for the website wasn t set correctly or had got messed up somehow during development

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The answer marked will help you eliminate the error but it will not get MVC working  The answer to the problem is to add this line to the web config file in system webServer    lt modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests  true    gt

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Following applies to IIS 7  The error is trying to tell you that one of two things is not working properly    There is no default page  e g   index html  default aspx  for your site   This could mean that the Default Document  feature  is entirely disabled  or just misconfigured  Directory browsing isn t enabled   That is  if you re not serving a default page for your site  maybe you intend to let users navigate the directory contents of your site via http  like a remote  windows explorer      See the following link for instructions on how to diagnose and fix the above issues   http   support microsoft com kb 942062 en-us  If neither of these issues is the problem  another thing to check is to make sure that the application pool configured for your website  under IIS Manager  select your website  and click  Basic Settings  on the far right  is configured with the same  Net framework version  in IIS Manager  under  Application Pools   as the targetFramework configured in your web config  e g     lt configuration gt     lt system web gt       lt compilation debug  true  targetFramework  4 0    gt       lt httpRuntime targetFramework  4 0    gt     lt  system web gt    I m not sure why this would generate such a seemingly unrelated error message  but it did for me

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Which version of IIS is your host running   One thing to try is to put a dummy default aspx file in the root folder  this will not be used when MVC is working  but can get rid of this problem

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I know its too late to post answer  but i found completely differently scenario  I tried all possible solution given above but that not works for me  I found very silly mistake   ignorance in my case I checked IIS manager window carefully and found asp net section was missing there  I have made Turn Windows features on for ASP net  below is the steps   Open Control Panel Programs Turn Windows Features on or off Internet Information Services World Wide Web Services Application development Check for -  gt Features ASP Net   I have closed IIS manager window and reopened it  now ASP NET section is visible   just browse hosted website and it s up on browser

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I was having this issue in a WebForms application  the error clearly says that A default document is not configured and it was true in my case  the default document was not configured  What worked for me is that I clicked on my site and on the middle pane in iis there is an option named Default Document  In the Default Document you have to check if the default page of the application exists or not   The default page of my application was index aspx and it wasnt present on iis Default Document window  So I made a new entry of index aspx and it started working

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Open IIS Setting in your plesk panel and enter default document name first page of website  deafault values are   Index html Index htm Index cfm Index shtml Index shtm Index stm Index php Index php3 Index asp Index aspx Default htm Default asp Default aspx     This will work properly

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The culprit might lie in the fact that Global asax has been placed in the wrong directory inside the mvc project  In my case it was placed under  Views but I had to move it should have been placed under the root folder of the project   In your case you might be the exact opposite - run some tests and see for yourself   https   stackoverflow com a 41467885 863651

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In my case  I had to install the Microsoft Owin Host SystemWeb package   I was getting the same message as you did  but then noticed I couldn t even hit a breakpoint in Startup cs which then let me to this SO thread

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Have you add a default route to this class    public class RouteConfig       public static void RegisterRoutes  RouteCollection routes                HomePage  is the root view of your app         routes MapRoute               name   Default               url    controller   action   id                defaults  new                   controller    Home   action    HomePage   id   UrlParameter Optional                                      After that in Global asax cs add this line to Application Start   method   RouteConfig RegisterRoutes  RouteTable Routes     I had this problem after I made an upgrade from MVC4 to MVC5 following this post and I had that line commented for a reason that I ve forgot   Hope this helps

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