I deployed my first ASP.NET MVC application to the Windows Server 2008 with IIS7.0. The package deployment was a great choice it deployed everything without any pain. But after I deployed when I try to access the URL it gave me a blank page. I could not find out the issue. Then I came across this site to solve the issue.
Basically MVC pattern will try to hide all the error messages which is raised from the application for security reason. It’s a good idea but when it comes to the deployment we really don’t know what went wrong.
Later I enabled the HTTP ERROR and HTTP Redirection under Add Role Services in the Server Manager. Once I enable that I got to see the original error. In my case the application could not connect to SQL server. I fixed the issue.
After I fixed that error I could able to browse my site. But another problem came up. The site was naked without any css and images. I thought it’s a server browser which blocks the css. Later I tried in my machine it was still the same without css and images.
Later I found that Static Content was not enabled in the IIS Role. I enabled, it started to work…
