ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6 Walkthrough

I?ve seen a lot of reports where people have trouble getting ASP.NET MVC up and running on IIS 6. Sometimes the problem is a very minor misconfiguration, sometimes it?s a misunderstanding of how IIS 6 works. In this post, I want to provide a definitive guide to getting ASP.NET MVC running on IIS 6. I will walk through using the .mvc or .aspx file extension for URLs first, then I will walkthrough using extension-less URLs. If you?re running into problems with IIS 6 and ASP.NET MVC, I recommend trying to walk through all the steps in this post, even if you?re not interested in using the .mvc or .aspx mapping. Some of the lessons learned here have more to do with how ASP.NET itself works with IIS 6 than anything specific to ASP.NET MVC. Initial...(read more) ...