title: Why won't my MVC project work after publishing it?
body: <p>I recently published my first MVC 2 project to a commercial web server, running Windows 2008, and which purportedly supports other MVC sites without issue, but have been experiencing some problems. Here is the high-level structure of the project. As you can see, it is very simple:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/QuestmasterAzuth/directories.jpg" /></p>
  
  <p>But, after the site is published, and I navigate to the URL, I get "HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden: The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory." </p>
  
  <p>So, I contacted the web host about it and was told I had to include a default landing page, such as Default.aspx, Index.aspx, etc. I doubted this response was accurate because I thought MVC Routing would have taken care of this, but I did as suggested anyway, adding a redirect to my home controller in the Default.aspx.cs codebehind, but got an HTTP Error 404. I added that redirect per advice similar to that found in this article: <a href="http://www.58bits.com/blog/CommentView,guid,10b2ddfa-057c-41d0-bdc7-564b212ce896.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.58bits.com/blog/CommentView,guid,10b2ddfa-057c-41d0-bdc7-564b212ce896.aspx</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I've been going back and forth with the web host about this for over a week, across about a dozen different responses and answers, yet I have not been able to find a resolution to this. I am <strong>sure</strong> this is a simple thing to resolve, but I have no idea what to try next, or what to suggest to the web hosting support that they try next. </p>
  
  <p>Soooo ... knowing that the StackOverflow community is smarter than me and the support techs for my web hosting company combined, a thousand times over, I'm hoping you can help me work toward a resolution here, so I can successfully publish my project and access it without error. </p>