HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden IIS Error for ASP.Net MVC 4 Application

Question

we developed an asp.net mvc 4 application. in vs 2012 this work fine. we publish this web application and putting it on iis 7.5, but when we want to browse web application t

Answer 1

Perhaps... If you happen to use the Publish Wizard (like I did) and select the "Precompile during publishing" checkbox (like I did) and see the same symptoms...

Yeah, I beat myself over the head, but after unchecking this box the, seemingly unrelated setting, all the symptoms described go away.

Hopefully this fixes some folks.