<p>OK, deploying ASP.NET MVC seems to be painful. I want to deploy my ASP.NET MVC application on Windows XP (IIS 5.1), but can't seem to find how to do it. When I type the application name into the web browser address bar I get a "website not available" message. </p>

<p>There are workarounds for <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/239981/deploy-aspnet-mvc-beta-to-iis-6-causing-404s">IIS 6.0</a>, but what about IIS 5.1?  </p>

The
same
process (using Ionic rewriter) which works for 6.0 works for us on 5.x. What do you see in the Windows App Event log? And the IIS server log? Have you tried a rewriter?