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    <p>We just got a new Windows 2008 R2 server and I am trying to set up an MVC 3 site in IIS 7.5 with the Razor View Engine. I am getting a strange error when I access the default route.</p> <blockquote> <p>The layout page "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml" could not be found at the following path: "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml".</p> </blockquote> <p>This is strange because I explicitly set the Layout from within <code>/views/home/index.cshtml</code> like so:</p> <pre><code>@{ Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml"; } </code></pre> <p>I am 100% certain that the <code>/views/shared/_layout.cshtml</code> exists in the file system. Here's a screenshot.</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/0kEWJ.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>If I remove the <code>Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";</code> from my view, the page will render out the contents of <code>/home/index.cshtml</code> all by itself (without any of the code from <code>_Layout.cshtml</code>). I have also tried setting the layout using <code>_ViewStart.cshtml</code>.</p> <p>Anyone know why MVC wouldn't be able to "find" the layout file? This website works perfectly fine when running in the built-in web server for visual studio. </p> <p>Here's my stack trace:</p> <pre><code>[HttpException (0x80004005): The layout page "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml" could not be found at the following path: "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml".] System.Web.WebPages.WebPageExecutingBase.NormalizeLayoutPagePath(String layoutPage) +204956 System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.PopContext() +150 System.Web.Mvc.ViewResultBase.ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context) +384 System.Web.Mvc.&lt;&gt;c__DisplayClass1c.&lt;InvokeActionResultWithFilters&gt;b__19() +33 System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilter(IResultFilter filter, ResultExecutingContext preContext, Func`1 continuation) +784900 System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultWithFilters(ControllerContext controllerContext, IList`1 filters, ActionResult actionResult) +265 System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeAction(ControllerContext controllerContext, String actionName) +784976 System.Web.Mvc.Controller.ExecuteCore() +159 System.Web.Mvc.ControllerBase.Execute(RequestContext requestContext) +335 System.Web.Mvc.&lt;&gt;c__DisplayClassb.&lt;BeginProcessRequest&gt;b__5() +62 System.Web.Mvc.Async.&lt;&gt;c__DisplayClass1.&lt;MakeVoidDelegate&gt;b__0() +20 System.Web.Mvc.&lt;&gt;c__DisplayClasse.&lt;EndProcessRequest&gt;b__d() +54 System.Web.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +453 System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean&amp; completedSynchronously) +371 </code></pre>
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