Visual Studio 2008 Pro
SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition
MVC 1.0
Vista and IIS 7.0

Using the above, I have tried to open the final code released with the book as a website using the Local IIS option. The website seems to work but its design appears in IE8 as plain text with no images, as if the style sheets have not been applied to the website.

I can run the application as a project file with no problems but for testing purposes I wanted to run it using Local IIS on the same machine I develop on.

Has anyone else had problems with this?
Thanks in advance.

If you put this in a subdirectory on your IIS you need to make sure it is the root.

Such as if you have

http://localhost/TheBeerHouse

This is wrong, you need to create a separate site, like

http://localhost

or

http://localhost:1891

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Why is this different to other websites? Is this due to IIS 7.0 or the way the site was designed?

It's not different than most websites. Most websites cannot be moved from a root to a sub folder without incurring some display problems. This includes PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby, etc.

This is because absolute paths were used for the resources in the header and footer for CSS, images, and JS. For example most of the resources look look like this:

http://www.yourdomain.com/Content/scripts/global.js

when you moved everything to a sub folder those paths didn't change to reflect your sub folder.

The difference that I think you mean is why do ASP.NET Webforms allow me to do this. That is because WebForms manage the paths of the resources for you, and adjust those accordingly.

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Hi Nick,

First off, great book.

This post helped me understand why I can't run the app from a subfolder. However, I'm unclear on how else to run this on localhost. If I use the Web properties tab and create a virtual directory, it will run there, but it requires a subfolder name in order to create the V/D.

Why am I trying to get it to work on localhost? My ultimate goal is to use the Web Deployment tool in IIS Manager per this link, and the way I've got that working is if it's already set up on localhost.

Hope you can help. Thanks!

I answered my own question. Rather than running on localhost in the way I described, I simply needed to Publish to there. noob mistake.