Glenn Wiley's Blog

I have a personal website hosted by Webstrike Solutions.  Their responsiveness to any technical questions I've had is amazing.  I would be happy to get a reply within a business day...these guys respond within an hour quite often.  So, my website is hosted on Windows Server 2003 running IIS 6.  If you need to know how to configure your ASP.NET MVC application to run under IIS 6, check out Phil Haack's excellent post here.  First thing I did was email a request to Webstrike to set up an application extension mapping for .mvc to the aspnet_isapi.dll.  After that was done, I set up a very basic ASP.NET MVC site (which, by the way, if you want a clean, no-frills setup, check out this post from Guy Burstein).  All I needed to do next was upload the files to my web server and see if it worked.  One thing I initially forgot is that the web host likely doesn't have ASP.NET MVC installed on the server, so be sure to upload the System.Web.Abstractions.dll, System.Web.Mvc.dll and System.Web.Routing.dll files to your bin directory.  Once I did that, I was greeted with my Hello, World message from my shell application.  Now to add some meaningful content...