.NET MVC 5 Only one area not working under IIS - asp.net

Question

I have problem with one area in my project called 'Reports'. I always get 404 error when I try to access some controller from this Area. This problem only occurs when I run my application on local IIS (Windows 8.1). On other machine (windows 7 and local IIS) everything is ok. Even on this windows 8.1 machine, but IIS Express everything is working well.
I was trying to clear temp files, but no resuls.
Areas are registed such like this:
public class ReportsAreaRegistration : AreaRegistration
{
public override string AreaName
{
get
{
return "Reports";
}
}
public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
{
context.MapRoute(
"Reports_default",
"Reports/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
new { action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
}
And in Global.asax, Application_start() method:
AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
I dont know where could be the problem. Do you have any ideas?

Answer 1

Check event viewer. I had this problem and the 'Reports' URL was a virtual directory having to do with SQL Server Reporting Services.

Answer 2

Try this:
public class ReportsAreaRegistration : AreaRegistration
{
public override string AreaName
{
get
{
return "Reports";
}
}
public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
{
context.MapRoute(
"Reports_main",
"Reports/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
new { area = "Reports", controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
context.MapRoute(
"Reports_default",
"Reports/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
new { action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
}
The Reports_default routing rule sets Index to be the default action for a given controller.
You need to add another Reports_main rule that will set a default controller when you access the root of the area e.g. /Reports. In this rule I assume that the default controller is Home but you can change that to fit your project.

Answer 3

The default AreaRegistration scaffold by Visual Studio does not include a default for controller, meaning that providing a controller in the URL is required.
/Reports/Home // This works (if you have a home controller)
/Reports // This doesn't work
To make the controller optional, you need to provide a default.
public class ReportsAreaRegistration : AreaRegistration
{
public override string AreaName
{
get
{
return "Reports";
}
}
public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
{
context.MapRoute(
"Reports_default",
"Reports/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
// Note that controller is defaulted to Home
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
}
Note also that the order in which routes are registered is the same that they will be executed for the entire application. Typically, this means that you must call AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas() before you call RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes).
The answer provided by Tasos will also work, but is incorrectly configured:
Specifying a default area within an AreaRegistration is redundant and unnecessary.
Reports_default in his example is an unreachable execution path, which makes it also redundant and unnecessary.