IIS, Visual Studio, Web

Running ASP.NET 5 MVC on IIS 8.5

This is how I got my ASP.NET 5 MVC site to run on IIS 8.5. I had some initial problems and most information I found on internet was about earlier beta versions of the framework. All of these had lots of steps and and none of them helped me.

Software Setup

  • Windows Server 2012 R2 (fresh install)
  • IIS 8.5
  • DNX Version: dnx-clr-x64.1.0.0-rc1-update1
  • Visual Studio 2015 Update 1

Server Installation

  1. Added Server Role: Web Server (IIS).
    And also ASP.NET 4.5 (under Web Server (IIS) -> Web Server -> Application Development).
    This will also include the feature ASP.NET from .NET Framework and ISAPI Extensions, ISAPI Filters and also .NET Extensibility 4.5.
  2. Installed the HttpPlatformHandler 1.2 from:
    http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/httpplatformhandler

Publishing Site

  1. Compiled and Published the Web project in Visual Studio to a local folder.
    Configuration: Release – x64 (will probably work with Any CPU also).
    Target DNX Version: dnx-clr-x64.1.0.0-rc1-update1
  2. Copied the published output to the Web Server.
  3. Added a new  Site pointing to the wwwroot in the published folder.

And that was all that was necessary. Obviously running an ASP.NET 5 site is much easier now when the release candidate is out.

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