The controller for path '/Content/bootstrap' was not found or does not implement IController

Question

I've set up StructureMap as my choice for DI and upon registering my custom controller factory, this error pops up (the error doesn't pop if StructureMap isn't set up). I don't know why this error occurs, it seems oddly buggy, am I missing anything? I've seen comments to this issue around SO but no definitive answer. If there is a correct fix for this that I missed, would you kindly point me in the right direction?

public class StructureMapControllerFactory : DefaultControllerFactory
{
    protected override IController GetControllerInstance(RequestContext requestContext, Type controllerType)
    {
        var appRepo = new ApplicationDbContext();
        var settingsRepo = new SettingRepository(appRepo);

        if (controllerType == typeof(SettingsController))
        {
            return new SettingsController(settingsRepo);
        }

        return base.GetControllerInstance(requestContext, controllerType); 
    }
}

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
    {
        routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Default",
            url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );
    }

protected void Application_Start()
    {
        AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
        FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
        RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
        BundleConfig.RegisterBundles(BundleTable.Bundles);

        // This initializes our database
        Database.SetInitializer<ApplicationDbContext>(new ApplicationDbInitializer());
        ControllerBuilder.Current.SetControllerFactory(new StructureMapControllerFactory());

possible duplicate of [Custom Controller Factory, Dependency Injection / Structuremap problems with ASP.NET MVC](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/719678/custom-controller-factory-dependency-injection-structuremap-problems-with-asp) — Tieson T., Aug 24 '14 at 05:54

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 24 '15 at 13:54

I've just had this perhaps misleading message, when running in debug mode. What has happened for me is that I have removed modernizr from my BundleConfig.cs

//bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/modernizr").Include(
//            "~/Scripts/modernizr-*"));

but when I have created new Areas in my project, it has scaffolded in the call to load modernizr

@Scripts.Render("~/bundles/modernizr")

You need to remove this call to the non-existant bundle. I would suggest it is the same issue that you were having.

I'm sure this information will help somebody in the future.

This helped me pinpoint the problem. The previous developers left a mess of spaghetti code and after I cleaned it up I started getting these errors. Turns out they had merged the modernizr bundle with the jquery bundle and forgot to remove the references to it in a few pages. Keep you code clean, kids... — BeanFlicker, May 30 '18 at 17:31

The controller for path '/Content/bootstrap' was not found or does not implement IController

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