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It is a simple as that I installed glimpse following this page. :

http://getglimpse.com/About/QuickStart

I then attempt to navigate to http://myApp/glimpse.axd and receive 404 error not found.

As you can see in the Quickstart there is this statement. :

If you get a "Page not found" when browsing to "/glimpse.axd" check the troubleshooting section in the FAQ.

There is nothing in the FAQ regarding this. I have skimmed this website and getGlimpse.com attempting numerous other configurations and nothing is working. Any one else run into this issue and fix it?

Tried this also. :

Glimpse for MVC3 module not found after NuGet install of Glimpse.MVC3

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I encountered the same problem and in my case the solution was to add the following code to Application_Start() in the MvcApplication class:

routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
Jonathan Persson
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    Bam that's it. But it's enough to let through only Glimpse.axd: `routes.IgnoreRoute("Glimpse.axd");` – iappwebdev Jan 08 '14 at 16:53
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    I can confirm this worked for me too, Just make sure that the IgnoreRoute code above is the FIRST route, as we all know the order is very important. – Isuru Fonseka Mar 03 '14 at 00:36
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Make sure you have the Glimpse module and handler registered in your web.config based on the web server you are using.

  • If you are using a site on IIS6, in IIS7.x classic pipeline mode or Visual Studio Development Server 

    <system.web>
    <httpModules>
        <add 
            name="Glimpse" 
            type="Glimpse.Core.Module, Glimpse.Core"
        />
    </httpModules>
    <httpHandlers>
        <add 
            path="glimpse.axd" 
            verb="GET,POST" 
            type="Glimpse.Core.Handler, Glimpse.Core"
        />
   </httpHandlers>
   ...

  • And if you are using IIS 7.x in integrated pipeline mode or IIS Express:

    <system.webServer>
    <modules>
        <add 
            name="Glimpse" 
            type="Glimpse.Core.Module, Glimpse.Core" 
            preCondition="integratedMode" 
        />
    </modules>
    <handlers>
        <add 
            name="Glimpse" 
            path="glimpse.axd" 
            verb="GET,POST" 
            type="Glimpse.Core.Handler, Glimpse.Core" 
            preCondition="integratedMode" 
        />
    </handlers>
    ...
</system.webServer>
Darin Dimitrov
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    Added that in as I did not have that and still receive a 404.0. Thank you for your response. – Bill Blankenship Jan 02 '13 at 23:31
  • Did you enable glimpse in your web.config file using the `` custom configuration section? Also which web server are you using to test this? IIS or IIS Express in Visual Studio? Also make sure that the `Glimpse.Core` assembly is present in your `bin` folder. Normally that's all you need to enable Glimpse. – Darin Dimitrov Jan 02 '13 at 23:37
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    Yes, I enabled it in web.config. Using IIS 7.5. Glimpse.Core is in my bin folder. Still unable to access .axd. – Bill Blankenship Jan 03 '13 at 14:14
  • Sorry, I don't have any more clues. This setup has always worked for me. Any chance you could send me a sample project exhibiting the problem? – Darin Dimitrov Jan 03 '13 at 14:26
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    I just got it to work in a standard project. Thank you so much for your time these have all been great suggestions. My issue I think is that I have a solution with about 8 projects in it....... – Bill Blankenship Jan 03 '13 at 14:30
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    I was able to get it to work in both MVC3 and MVC4 standard test projects. I think when it does in install in my multi project solution it doesn't know where to put the files. – Bill Blankenship Jan 03 '13 at 14:51
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    Got it working, my package manager console was hitting the incorrect project. Your answers were dead on leading me to this conclusion. – Bill Blankenship Jan 03 '13 at 14:57
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I have had a very similar problem, and none of these options helped me, but I did get it working. This is what I had to do:

I am using MVC 5, so make sure you have read the latest config for glimpse for the version you are using. I should have been using Glimpse.AspNet and not Glimpse.Core

My web config looks like this:

 <handlers>
    ....
    <remove name="Glimpse" />
    <add name="Glimpse" path="glimpse.axd" verb="GET"
         type="Glimpse.AspNet.HttpHandler, Glimpse.AspNet"   
         preCondition="integratedMode" />  
</handlers>
<modules>
    ....
    <remove name="Glimpse" />
    <add name="Glimpse" 
         type="Glimpse.AspNet.HttpModule, Glimpse.AspNet" 
         preCondition="integratedMode"/>    
</modules>

I am using IIS Express, Vs2015 and for some reason my C:\Users\me\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config got messed up, and had a special entry for Glimpse.

So I found and removed any entries with Glimpse in them (carefully, you might want to comment them out instead)

<application path="/Glimpse.axd" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
    <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="\path\to\extra\website" />
</application>

I think this may have happened from a really early version of glimpse been installed, and also something to do with the upgrade to MVC5, but not 100% sure why...

Hope this helps someone else.

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I had a multi-project solution and was installing it from the Package Manager Console. I found that installing it using the following command worked:

 PM> Install-Package -ProjectName <MyProject> Glimpse.MVC4

Of course you need to replace <MyProject> with your own project name.

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In my case, the web app is not deployed in root, so the url is:

http://localhost:54026/MyApp/glimpse.axd

Very obvious, but I'll leave this answer as a reminder.

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Install Glimpse.AspNet and it will fix the issue for you and also modify the web.config by adding the handler and module.

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