Friday, July 20, 2012

Configuring IIS to work with ASP.NET 4

Step 1:  Enable IIS on your computer.

  • go to control panel
  • Add or remove programs or program and features
  • Turn windows features on or off
  • Internet Information Service
  • select, all web management tools
  • expand world wide web services 
  • expand Application Development Features
  • check ASP.NET and .NET Extensibility
  • Click OK
Step 2:  Register ASP.NET 4
  • For 32 bit windows in cmd prompt enter
  • %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -ir
  • For 64 bit windows  in cmd prompt enter
  • %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -ir
Step 3: Configure your website to use ASP.NET 4
  • right click my computer and manage
  • In Services and Applications you will see IIS Manager
  • On clicking it a console will open up.
  • on right column of the console there is one change .NET Framework
  • Change it to .net framework 4
You Are Done and you can now run your local site on localhost