ASP.NET MVC 5 - Deployment On Windows IIS Server

You will see that your application pool has been created and started.

Step 9. Now, right-click on "Sites" and then click "Add Website".

Step 10. On the "Add Website" window, first select the application pool that you have created specifically for your ASP.NET MVC5 web application, click the "Select" button, then choose your application pool, and then click "OK" as shown below i.e.

Step 11. Now, provide configuration settings on the "Add Website" screen and then click "OK" as shown below.

You can see that your empty website is being created on the server as shown below.

Step 12. Right-click on the "Test" site then click "Deploy->Import Application" as shown below.

Step 13. On the "Select Package" screen, provide the location path of your published ".zip" web application file and then click "Next" as shown below i.e.

Step 14. On the next screen, select all the options and then click "Next" as shown below.

Step 15. Click "Next" on the next screen as shown below.

Step 16. Click the "Finish" button, your web application has been deployed successfully as shown below.

Step 17. You need to purchase & configure your custom domain name on the server, to access your web application from a web browser using a custom URL address. To configure a custom domain name free of cost on your local Windows machine for custom URL address access, follow the steps provided at the end of the video tutorial, link to the video tutorial is provided above in this article. Therefore, after your custom URL address configuration, type your URL address in the browser and you will be able to access your ASP.NET MVC5 web application, which has been successfully deployed on the windows IIS server i.e.

Conclusion

In this article, you learned to deploy your ASP.NET MVC5 web application on a Windows machine with an IIS server installed. You learned to publish your ASP.NET MVC5 application as a web-deployed ZIP package. You also learned to add a new application pool on your IIS server and finally, you learned to add a new website on your IIS server with a custom domain name URL address.