Deploying a asp.net mvc4 application to godaddy

Question

I created an ASP.NET MVC4 application using C# on Visual Studio 2012. But facing a hard time deploying it. I uploaded all the folders of my project onto my server (godaddy). But still cant view my website running.

My question: Is this enough to deploy my site ? Or anything else needed?

Some more facts would be required. What hosting package are you using with godaddy? Does a static html page work? — Olaf, Jan 12 '13 at 12:32
I'm pretty sure GoDaddy [doesn't support MVC4 yet](http://support.godaddy.com/groups/web-hosting/forum/topic/go-daddy-compatible-with-asp-net-mvc-4-razor-syntaxe/). — byteplumber, Jan 29 '13 at 17:40

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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You can bin deploy an MVC4 app to GoDaddy.

Just copy the relevant MVC4 related DLLs that you need to your production bin directory.

Alternatively, you can set "Copy Local" equal to "true" in the Properties window for any of your MVC4 related project references as described in this blog post. Then when you do a Publish of your application, all of the needed assemblies will be included automatically.

You probably won't need all of these, but in an MVC4 app I currently manage on GoDaddy, I needed to manually include the correct versions of DLLs for:

System.Web.Abstractions.dll
System.Web.Helpers.dll
System.Web.Mvc.dll
System.Web.Optimization.dll
System.Web.Razor.dll
System.Web.Routing.dll
System.Web.WebPages.Deployment.dll
System.Web.WebPages.dll
System.Web.WebPages.Razor.dll

edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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I have a Windows Deluxe hosting plan, but any Windows plan should work. – Mac May 18 '13 at 21:46
did you just use the button "Pubish" in VS2012 and fill in all required columns in the dialog?(host, name, ...) – StepUp Jan 09 '14 at 07:14
Yes, the blog post link (http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/03/bin-deploy-aspnetmvc.aspx) walks you through this using the Publish Wizard. – Mac Jan 09 '14 at 16:25
I've created a local folder with my project files and have uploaded to godaddy by filezilla. However, I've got the error: 500 - Internal server error. Did you upload files by filezilla or just use "Publish" button of VS2012? – StepUp Jan 11 '14 at 09:57
I did a "Publish" to a local directory and then uploaded everything to GoDaddy via FileZilla. – Mac Jan 13 '14 at 16:09
Have you putted all files in the root? I've putted all files in the root, however it was an idle attempt. – StepUp Jan 14 '14 at 12:33
please see my question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21159691/cannot-deploy-mvc-4-at-godaddy/21161720?noredirect=1#21161720 – StepUp Jan 17 '14 at 13:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 19 '14 at 11:58

sure, you can deploy your MVC 4 application. Godaddy supports MVC 4. What I have done to deploy my MVC 4 application is:

1. I included DLLs such as:

System.Web.Mvc
System.Web.Routing
System.Web.Abstractions

2. I edited web.config file. I put next strings:

    <system.web>
        <trust level="Medium"/>
        .....  
    </system.web>

3. Then I used the File System publish method and then I used FileZilla to transfer the files to the GoDaddy. I copied all files to httpdocs directory. You must copy just to *httpdocs directory.*

That's all. Good luck.

Please help me. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46399021/how-to-deploy-asp-net-mvc-5-application-using-visual-studio — Unbreakable, Sep 25 '17 at 23:48

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