Access is denied in MVC 4 Intranet Application in VS 11

When you are creating MVC Intranet Application like below in VS 11.

 mvc4

You run the application by pressing Internet Explorer then you will hit the Access in denied error as below.

 MVC4AccessDenied

Open the Wen.config file and comment out the following line then you will be fine.

<denyusers=? />

 

 

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4 Responses to Access is denied in MVC 4 Intranet Application in VS 11

  1. Pingback: Activare “WindowsAuthentication” pe IIS Express 8 (VS2012)

  2. Lucian Maran says:

    IMHO, in this way, the authentication mechanism becomes unusable.
    I think, a better solution is to enable Windows Authentication in IIS Express (applicationhost.config file in your user profile). I did that here (not in english but easy to understand): http://maran.ro/2012/09/06/activare-windowsauthentication-pe-iis-express-8-vs2012/

  3. Steve says:

    What is the default settings for the applicationhost.config?
    Mine is currently as follows:

    This does not work, however when I use chanmingman’s method, I can at least get the index page to display for the home controller on a new MVC App. Without it, I get the exact same error.

  4. Steve says:

    What is the default settings for the applicationhost.config?
    Mine is currently as follows:
    +authentication>
    +anonymousAuthentication enabled=”false” />
    +basicAuthentication enabled=”false” />
    +clientCertificateMappingAuthentication enabled=”false” />
    +digestAuthentication enabled=”false” />
    +iisClientCertificateMappingAuthentication enabled=”false”>
    +/iisClientCertificateMappingAuthentication>
    +windowsAuthentication enabled=”true”>
    +providers>
    +add value=”Negotiate” />
    +add value=”NTLM” />
    +/providers>
    +/windowsAuthentication>
    +/authentication>

    This does not work, however when I use chanmingman’s method, I can at least get the index page to display for the home controller on a new MVC App. Without it, I get the exact same error.

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