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POHow can I combine a MVC4 site and a WebAPI site under the same IIS website?
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copied!<p>I have a project (named <code>Product.Api</code>) that has some controllers used for our WebAPI site. The controllers are in a namespace <code>Product.Api.Controllers</code>. The project also has some other helper stuff as well. This is compiled into a library.</p> <p>I also have another regular ASP.NET MVC4 website named <code>Product.Web</code>. This has Controllers (under the namespace <code>Product.Web.Controllers</code>), Models and Views (in its corresponding folders). It also has a <code>Global.asax.cs</code> which has the routing information.</p> <p>When the site is created in IIS (.NET 4.5, IIS7, integrated mode, etc), I copy the <code>Product.Api</code> dll into the bin folder. The <code>Product.Web</code> is the main site. </p> <p>Now I want the url <a href="http://www.product.com/api/" rel="nofollow">http://www.product.com/api/</a>{Controller}/{id} to map to the WebAPI stuff and <a href="http://www.product.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.product.com/</a>{Controller}/{Action}/{id} to map to the regular MVC. </p> <p>This is what I have right now as my routes:</p> <pre><code>routes.MapHttpRoute( name: "DefaultApi", routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}", defaults: new {id = RouteParameter.Optional} ).Constraints["Namespaces"] = new string[] { "Product.Api.Controllers" }; routes.MapRoute( name: "Default", url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}", defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } , namespaces: new[] { "Product.Web.Controllers" } ); </code></pre> <p>Unfortunately when I go to an api url (in this case the example was <a href="http://www.product.com/api/Tables/" rel="nofollow">http://www.product.com/api/Tables/</a> (or even when I define an id), I get a HTTP 404 error. </p> <p><a href="http://www.product.com/Home/Index" rel="nofollow">http://www.product.com/Home/Index</a> works fine. </p> <p>Oddly enough I tried the <a href="http://haacked.com/archive/2008/03/13/url-routing-debugger.aspx" rel="nofollow">routing debugger tool</a> and I still had issues. In fact I could never see the output of the debugger. <a href="http://www.product.com/Home/Index" rel="nofollow">http://www.product.com/Home/Index</a> and <a href="http://www.product.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.product.com/</a> both show the view but everything api/* still shows 404. I have yet to see any output from the debugger.</p> <p>So is there anyway to get the desired effect?</p> <p>Edit: I noticed that my global.asax.cs file was in the <code>Product.Web</code> namespace. I changed it to be in the <code>Product</code> namespace and still no go.</p>

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