I'm setting up am ASP.NET MVC site onto a development server, and would like to run a wiki (Screwturn Wiki) as a subdirectory of the site.  I have set up 'wiki' as a virtual directory in IIS7 (WinServer 2008), and added 'routes.IgnoreRoute("wiki");' to Global.asax, but when I browse to that virtual directory I get a Compilation Error as it looks for Microsoft.Web.Mvc.dll, from the web.config file of my MVC site.

Am I able to completely bypass MVC for a virtual subdirectory?  (I would have thought that IIS would redirect before any application layer, but I guess not).

 Thanks in advance.

Try to add the following configuration directives into the web.config of your /wiki/ folder:

<configuration>

<pages>

<remove namespace="System.Web.Mvc"/>

<remove namespace="Microsoft.Web.Mvc"/>

</namespaces>

<httpHandlers>

</httpHandlers>

<remove name="UrlRoutingModule" />

</system.web>

</configuration>

That did (most of) the trick - thank you.  Now I'm running into another issue.  In Global.asax.cs, I have added

routes.IgnoreRoute("wiki");

or a number of variations on that ("wiki*", "wiki/", etc).

This has allowed the wiki virtual subdir to be accessed, but now all the routes generated using Html.ActionLink<>() have the form

http://localhost/wiki?controller=Cont&action=Index

Somehow "wiki" has overtaken my app!!!

Any ideas as to what is going on here?

 Thanks again.

Can you post your full route table here?

Sure - it's pretty complex (tongue held securely in cheek...)

   routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
   routes.IgnoreRoute("wiki/{*path}");

   routes.MapRoute(
    "Default",                                              // Route name
    "{controller}/{action}/{id}",                           // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" }  // Parameter defaults
   );

It's that second line - I've tried quite a few options, but either I get no access to the wiki subdir or my ActionLinks go spastic.  I could hard code all links, but that sort of defeats the purpose.  I'm using MVC Preview 5 (from Codeplex) if that makes difference.

Change:

routes.IgnoreRoute("wiki/{*path}");

To:

routes.IgnoreRoute("{*path}", new { path = @"wiki\/(.*)" });

This forces the path to be something starting with wiki/.

Maartenba, I owe you a beer!

Thanks for all your help.

Guess that beer will be warm before it arrives :-(

No problem :-)

I am having this issue. I am trying to install the time tracking starter on a virtual directory with a MVC app on the root.

I have called the virtual directory Time.

Below is the web.config from the time app

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<configuration xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0">

  <connectionStrings>

    <add name="aspnet_staterKits_TimeTracker" connectionString="Server=208.78.24.53,14333;Database=databaseName;Uid=jamiejon;Password=Fia84grapu;User Instance=true" />

    <remove name="LocalSqlServer"/>

    <add name="LocalSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|TimeTracker.mdf;User Instance=true" />

  </connectionStrings>

  <location path="Time" inheritInChildApplications="false">

  <system.web>

    <pages>

      <namespaces>

        <remove namespace="System.Web.Mvc"/>

        <remove namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax"/>

        <remove namespace="Microsoft.Web.Mvc"/>

        <remove namespace="System.Web.Routing"/>

      </namespaces>

    </pages>

    <siteMap defaultProvider="AspNetXmlSiteMapProvider" enabled="true">

      <providers>

        <clear />

        <add name="AspNetXmlSiteMapProvider"

type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"

siteMapFile="web.sitemap"

securityTrimmingEnabled="true"  />

      </providers>

    </siteMap>

    <authentication mode="Forms">

      <forms loginUrl="~/TimeTracker/login.aspx"/>

    </authentication>

    <compilation debug="false" />

    <customErrors mode="Off"/>

    <machineKey decryptionKey="AutoGenerate,IsolateApps"/>

    <roleManager enabled="true" >

    </roleManager>

      <httpHandlers>

          <remove verb="*" path="*.mvc" />

      </httpHandlers>

    <httpModules>

      <remove name="UrlRoutingModule" />

    </httpModules>

  </system.web>

</location>

</configuration>