Configuration: 32-bit Windows 7 development machine with IIS 7.5
I created a new web site in IIS to host only MVC sites called MVCHOST. The physical path to this website is set as C:\inetpub\mvcroot. I created a new v4.0 pool called mvcpool for this purpose.
I have given Modify rights to IIS_WPG, IIS_IUSRS, ASPNET accounts.
I created this web site with a host header "mvchost" and port 80, in the hopes of browsing MVC sites in the following way:
mvchost/mvcapp1
mvchost/mvcapp2
instead of
localhost/mvcapp1
localhost/mvcapp2
The only binding I set is the default one: http:*:80:mvchost. I have also copied the files iisstart.htm, web.config, welcome.png and folder aspnet_client from wwwroot over to mvcroot.
Now when I try to the browse this site from IIS manager, I get the following error:
This webpage is not available
If I leave out the host header and give some port, say 99, I can access this website at localhost:99.
What am I missing here? Why am I unable to access the web site at: http://mvchost/?
