Deploy Service to IIS

[asilvaubiquity]

I'm deploying a service to IIS but still can't use it. The service works if launched from VisualStudio.

Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/servicestack/1DMSevzrZfQ/56-YCuGCfacJ

Steps:
1 - Compile the service
2 - XCopy bin folder, global.asax and web.config to folder
3 - At IIS Manager create the application under default web site
4 - Call it from browser with http://localhost/ServiceStackPing

The result is an empty, white, canvas. I tried all the urls I remembered but still without success.

I think I need some extra file, some entry point, like the asmx, or some configuration on the IIS, but can figure what.

By the way, why to I need to copy web.config if inside bin folder already is dll_name.config? Are one of these unnecessary?

Details:
VisualStudio 2013 Community
ServiceStack 4
IIS 8.5

Web.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
  For more information on how to configure your ASP.NET application, please visit
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169433
  -->
<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
    <httpRuntime />
    <httpHandlers>
      <add path="*" type="ServiceStack.HttpHandlerFactory, ServiceStack" verb="*" />
    </httpHandlers>
    <pages controlRenderingCompatibilityVersion="4.0" />
  </system.web>
  <system.webServer>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
    <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" />
    <handlers>
      <add path="*" name="ServiceStack.Factory" type="ServiceStack.HttpHandlerFactory, ServiceStack" verb="*" preCondition="integratedMode" resourceType="Unspecified" allowPathInfo="true" />
    </handlers>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

[mythz]

ServiceStack is just a plain ASP.NET Web Application so can be deployed with any of the recommended approaches for deploying any ASP.NET Web Application. The Web.config is required for all ASP.NET Web Applications, you may need to do some background reading on how ASP.NET Apps work - but this is beyond the scope of what ServiceStack provides.

We do have some docs showing different ways to deploy ServiceStack (which also applies to any ASP.NET Web application):

• Using VS.NET's WebDeploy
• Deploying to IIS on AWS

We also have guides on deploying with Octopus Deploy

• Deploy Multiple Sites to single AWS Instance
• Advanced Deployments with Octopus Deploy

As an alternative to Web Deploy from VS.NET we also have VS.NET templates that include using Grunt Tasks for deployment:

Our React and AngularJS Single Page App templates also offer a built-in Grunt tasks for deployments MS Deploy.