How to Deploy an ASP.NET MVC 4 Application to a FREE Web Host

        By Carmel Shvartzman

In this tutorial we'll learn Step By Step how to Deploy an ASP.NET MVC 4 Application on a FREE Web Hosting. 

We'll deploy the following Asp.Net MVC Application to the FREE HOSTING Somee.com host:

How to Deploy an ASP.NET MVC 4 Application to a FREE Web Host

Browse to Somee.com :

Select the FREE Hosting Package :

You register and set the LOGIN info :

Continue to get a Free Hosting Package :

Type the SUBDOMAIN of your Web Site :

And CREATE the site :

Now go to the File Manager, to UPLOAD your MVC site :

Open your file system where your MVC project is stored, and ZIP the entire MVC Web Site :

Then click "Upload & UnZip" :

After a while, you'll see the MVC files at the host :

Now we must set the DATABASE. Create a LOGIN :

Create a DATABASE :

Take a look at the Database's settings :

Now, we'll need to CUT & PASTE the entire web site to the UP folder :

Now, you can browse to your web site. Of course, it will be an error, because the database connection at the web.config file is still pointing at your machine's sql server :

So let's change the connection string :

Where's the new connection string? At the SQL database properties view :

COPY the connection string, and open the web.config file :

There, find the "Provider Connection String" key :

And PASTE the new connection BETWEEN the " " " :

That's not all. We'll keep getting an error because the database is empty. So let's create the tables using the automatically created sql SCRIPTS from the SQL Server Manager  :

First, copy ONLY THE TABLES , and after that, copy the FOREIGN KEYS alter scripts :

Go to "New SQL Query" :

And PASTE the scripts , ONE BY ONE (the alternative is, of course, running a batch file):

After you created all the tables, run ONE BY ONE the KEYS scripts .
Finally, let's see how to update a single file at the site .
Just DOWNLOAD the file, clicking the download icon at the right, edit the file, and UPLOAD it again, taking care that the "Overwrite existing files" option is on:

And that's all. Enter some data, and browse to your site:

That's all!! 

In this tutorial we've learned how to Deploy an ASP.NET MVC 4 Application on a FREE Web Host.  

Happy programming.....

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